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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