Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 03:37:52 05/03/01
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On May 03, 2001 at 06:13:31, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On May 03, 2001 at 05:46:09, Larry Proffer wrote: > >> >>Enrique was advising them (also Bertil), from Enrique's CC-list also possibly >>Thoralf. What was the advice, and why? What did they, as the brought in >>impartial experts, represent? > >Thoralf was included in the last minute debate between Schröder/Theron and >Enrique/BGN as some kind of "eyewitness". He didn't comment at all. He was >included by mr Schroeder and I think it was ok. If he did that he must have believed that the 'SSDF' position, or perhaps more accurately, the Bertil-Thoralf position, was leaning to Tiger inclusion. Since the public fight demonstrates Ed's anger with Enrique and not with SSDF/Bertil, then can we assume you were arguing for Tiger inclusion? Can we assume further that the issue was still open and not closed by contractual commitments at that stage? > >The so called impartial experts should recommend the "best" programs not all >programs in the world that in theory can be better. In April I believed that it >was Fritz, Junior, Shredder and Tiger(s) (alphabtical order). I don't believe it >is a coincidence that the best programs ARE commercial. But this was not a pre-condition as suggested elsewhere by others .... >Ferret could have been >an option .... since Ferret couldn't have been an option if there was a 'commercial' pre-condition. >but the programmer has made the impression that his program hasn't >been developed for a long time. I am sure all four programs above has improved a >lot in the last year or so. > >Bertil
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