Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:49:50 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 20:47:15, Steve B wrote: > >>On the Page >> >>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/index.html >> >>under New page >> >>stands: >> >>"Updated: Rybka 1.0 beta (UCI only) Not available anymore!!" >> >>If the Author or the Homepage closed the Download (it must have an reason ;), I >>seems, that we all should respected it. > >yes the reason is marketing >he has now received all of the free advertising on this board one could possibly >hope for >now he closes the freeware edition after only 5 days and will release the >commercial version,to eager members here waving their money > >and all of this in direct violation of the prohibition against commercial >exhortations If you are saying that Vasik Rajlich is the bad guy here, I think you may have gone totally insane. OK, that's hyperbole. Just a little crazy then. >the least he could do is offer to donate some of the proceeds of what i am sure >will be brisk sales, back to this board from which he advetisied without cost > >i would love to see him do that I guess that this is a lesson to those in the future who want to give something great away for free. Too bad Aesop is gone now. It could have been a nice fable with a shark and a whale or something.
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