Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 22:35:08 03/22/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 17:27:29, Peter Berger wrote: >This year was a year of competition I think : there was the Rebel 11 release , >CM 8000 and Shredder 5 . > >Every package was competitive to the Chessbase products by its own right . >There was _no_ Fritz 7 , _no_ Junior 7 , _no_ Hiarcs 8 , to talk about the top >shots of the company . exactly. chess base is burned out. they have found no method to fight against their opponents. in the moment it is AGAINST chessbase, people in the opponent companies are that highly motivated, that chessbase on the other hand has no chance at all. if it is against chessbase, it is against the borg. and NOBODY wants to see the borg win. therefore they have only ONE choice: to try to buy the enemies. thats all they can do. >Well , but what happens when only Chessbase and non-competitive competitors are >left ; who is the one who has to suffer ? The users ? Definitely no ( maybe >programs become a _little_ more expensive , so what ) . Might be the commercial >programmers left then . >I don't know why exactly I feel offended that much by this idea : probably I got >infected by some LINUX virus . > >pete your unconsciousness feels that you get betrayed. but it has not come to your consciousness. to your ego. you know that you got betrayed. but you don't know how yet. we all feel when we get betrayed. but some people have a very good surpressing routine.
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