Author: r.c. richards
Date: 06:11:12 12/03/00
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On December 02, 2000 at 19:58:20, Christophe Theron wrote: >I think Marcus' post is extremely on topic and interesting. Certainly it's on topic and interesting. >I would add that it is VERY informative about the business practices of one of >the chess software selling companies, and in this regard should be of high >interest for all the people that are currently considering buying software from >this company. It appears to me that Millennium is doing nothing other than asking for big trouble for themselves with this lawsuit. Laws must be very different from the United States in Germany. But anyway, I could put up a website here--not that I intend to--saying whatever I wanted about Shredder 5 and there's nothing Stefan could do about it, nothing. I could say it's the lamest program in the world, and Stefan could do nothing. Oh, he could file a suit, but it would either quickly be thrown out or he'd have opened himself up to being countersued, which would be very expensive for him. As far as this being a factor in purchasing or not purchasing Shredder--Shredder, unlike Gambit Tiger, is not something that I must have or even especially want. If I could stop the clock every day, maybe I'd like to have it, but since I've had Gambit Tiger, I think I've played Fritz one game, Chessmaster 7000 none. Speaking of Chessmaster, I went to Best Buy last night and they didn't have any for copies of 8000 there for 19.95. But I'm not even sure I'd pay 19.95 for it. Chessmaster has not offered me an upgrade, even though I've registered 7000 and I don't think I much care. rc
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