Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 20:39:31 02/12/06
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On February 12, 2006 at 13:27:19, Peter Skinner wrote: >On February 12, 2006 at 13:13:32, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I can add that it is typical for you not to buy the best program. >> >>I know that you did not buy shredder and did not buy fruit and did not buy >>rybka. >>All of them are the programs that were the best at the time that they were >>released(Now rybka is the best and it dominates the rating lists). >> >>For some reason you care too much about book and you did not buy shredder >>because of not being able to use sandro's book outside of shredder gui. >> >>I think that no book is no problem and rybka with some external book simply >>dominates in chess servers and proves again that the main important factor is >>the engine and not the book because it is easy to make books. >> >>Book may be important factor when the difference between engines is small but >>good book is not very important in games when one engine is significantly >>better. >> >>Uri > >I didn't purchase Shredder for several reasons, but the book was one of them. > >Fruit was entirely other reasons, one being they used this forum as a marketing >tool, thus the reason I removed many of those posts. It was against the charter. >They chose sales over the integrity of this forum by totally disregarding the >charter about commercial sales advertising. If I was Steve, I would have been >_severely_ pissed at that group. It was nothing more than a slap in the face to >him. > >I will _never_ purchase Rybka. Again this forum is being used as a marketing >tool and I am disgusted by it. It _was_ marketted right out of this forum, and >the users were the unknowning culprits. > >I prefer to purchase programs where the author shows a shred of decency and >honour by not raping this forum for monetary gain. > >Since I am a moderator though I can't state that I just did above. Apparently to >some here, one being a former moderator, I am not allowed to have opinions while >in this position. So you can just disregard all of the above :) > >Peter So, I just recently did a search for all posts by Vasik, and the only thread he started which could even possibly construed as commercial was the one which you deleted. Since this thread predates that post, please post an example of a post which of him "raping the forum for monetary gain". Nearly every post was a reply to somoene asking a question. Is it your interpretation of the charter that authors can't reply to question if the engine is available for sale?
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