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Subject: Re: Nagless standard GUIs set standards

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:22:59 07/18/05

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On July 18, 2005 at 13:31:01, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:

>On July 18, 2005 at 13:15:04, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>Nagless standard GUIs set standards.
>
>Nagless? AFAIK Shredder Classic is neither freeware nor shareware, and the test
>version has limitations. For the complete version, you have to buy it. Having to
>pay is the biggest nag no? :)
>
>When Shredder has the power to set standards (and I don't doubt it has), it is
>for no other reason than having been computerchess world champion a couple of
>times. Because of this great achievements and the quality of his software, SMK
>is a scene VIP and that provides some standarisation power, but not because the
>GUI is nagless or whatever..
>
>If that would be true, Arena would set standards, not Shredder. Arena is
>available free and unlimited.

If SMK has published the inteface specification, then anyone can write an
interface for it.

NAG and NONAG are implementation details.




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