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Subject: Re: And the reason to purchase CSTal is what again?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 12:46:22 08/22/99

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On August 21, 1999 at 20:03:10, pete wrote:

>>CSTal is not free. If it has a bug, it SHOULD be fixed.

there is no bug !
it sometimes oversteps time-control. this is no bug.
it is legal to do so.
it is surprising but not a bug.

> Chris has no problem
>>taking the money from his customers, therefore, he should have no problem fixing
>>ALL of the bugs.

Nonsense !


> Defending his actions shows that you are a true friend, but it
>>also shows a lack of concern on what is really important.

More nonsense. it only shows that you don't know what is important.


> As a true friend, you
>>should also be concerned about Chris' reputation in our small community, even
>>though Chris may not be concerned about it.

Even more nonsense. Chris is not interested to get reputation
in a group of programmers talking about statistics/results instead of
chess-moves.


>>Evidently, Chris has the freedom to ignore these types of things. But, that will
>>not endear people to him or CSTal. I made a decision some time back to NOT
>>purchase CSTal mainly on Chris' reputation. My choice. As it turns out, maybe
>>that was not such a bad decision after all.


>>KarinsDad :|


You are free to do whatever you want.
you talk about something you have never seen.
this is a prejudice. it would be better you would talk about something
you have at home and you have tested at least a few months. otherwise
your evaluation is very limited and only hear-said.

>Some people don't seem to realize that Chris Whittington and Thorsten Czub are
>two different people and I don't think Chris ever would have said that losing on
>time is a cool feature :=)

he would have said .

>I was an early buyer of CSTal2 ; I didn't understand a few things and there were
>a few bugs still ; _everything_ was fixed , _everything_ was explained . The
>support was simply great , fast and friendly .

:-)) 2 people. to opinions. how good that anything out there is objective :-)

>pete



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