Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:27:48 12/05/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 18:09:00, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>On December 03, 2000 at 12:41:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2000 at 12:14:56, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>><snipped>
>>>By doing so you position yourself as a follower.
>>>
>>>I know this is common commercial practice to play on the name confusion in order
>>>to fool the customer. "Gambit Tiger" and "Gambit Shredder" sound so close that
>>>it is indeed possible that some people buy your product thinking they are buying
>>>mine. How many of them? 1%? 2%? Is it worth selling your soul?
>>
>>I do not think that customers will be confused by the name in this case.
>>
>>The main name of the program is Shredder5.
>>The only way to confuse people is if millenium publish advertisment with the
>>words "Buy Gambit" when only after reading the small letters you understand that
>>the meaning is to Gambit shredder.
>>
>>If they do not do it then I expect that no customers will be confused.
>>
>>
>>I also do not expect people to be confused and buy Chess System tal instead of
>>Chessmaster or the opposite(I have no idea which program came first)
>>
>>I can add that there is a tal personality in Chessmaster and I do not think
>>that they did it in order to confuse people who want to buy Chess system tal.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Speaking for myself Christophe I do not think you need to worry. To me there is
>only one Gambit Program and it is your Tiger ! It is the most interesting
>program to come along in a long while. Roarrrrrrrrrr umphhh umphhh.
>
>New Subject: I think many of us _buyers_ of programs are getting tired of the
>lawsuit stuff and I am beggining to loose respect for all parties concerned in
>the suit lidigation. I cannot understand why lawyers would permit a client to
>carry on in this manner on this or any forum. What can be gained from it ? The
>downside is clear !
>
>Respectfully, Thanks
>Wayne
Do you mean you prefer to know nothing about what's happening?
Christophe
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