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Subject: Re: question about fruit future plans

Author: Christos Gitsis

Date: 12:18:58 09/27/05

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On September 27, 2005 at 11:21:19, Roger Brown wrote:

>On September 27, 2005 at 09:28:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Fabien mentioned that Fruit has search bugs(for example it cannot solve Fine70
>>in a short time).
>>
>>It can be productive if the fruit team report when they plan to fix the bugs.
>>I see no report on it in future plans of fruit and I see no report if they plan
>>to make it as free update or no(tablebase support is mentioned as free update).
>>
>>fixing bugs is of course included in increasing laying strength but I guess that
>>the same is also for tablebase support.
>>
>>It can be nice if the fruit team report about plans about fixing bugs and about
>>implementing known ideas(for example partial extensions or limiting extensions
>>because extending every single reply and every check by a single ply does not
>>make sense).
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>
>Hello Uri,
>
>Of course this is probably an exercise in futility but I suppose you obtained a
>similar timetable from the makers of other commercial programs when they plan to
>fix bugs in their offerings.
>
>It is generally good business sense to offer bug fixes as free upgrades *BUT* to
>require it as part of the sales agreement is.....well....odd.
>
>Of course I do not have your view on life so I prefer to go one day at a time.
>
>Without being unkind to anyone, are we going to stop using Windows because their
>bug fixes are called by different names which we have to buy at full value?

Yes!

>To wit:
>
>Windows 95
>Windows 98
>Windows 2000
>Windows XP
>Windows .......

I am not buying Windows ...... There are alternatives.

>
>:-)
>
>Tongue firmly in cheek.
>
>Later.

PS: This might be a little off topic, but you asked the question.



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