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Subject: Re: Sadly, CM8000 must withdraw

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:25:23 05/23/01

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On May 22, 2001 at 17:19:00, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On May 22, 2001 at 15:04:43, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On May 22, 2001 at 07:09:24, Volker Richey wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>please give me your CCT3 Hardware spec.
>>>
>>>http://www.vrichey.de/cct3
>>>
>>>bye
>>>
>>>volker
>>
>>Unfortunately, I have bad news. Our legal department has told us that people who
>>are not employees of Ubi Soft (or are otherwise under contract with us, such as
>>Johan) cannot "represent" our products in "official" tournaments. So, sadly, I
>>am going to have to withdraw CM8000 from the CCT3.
>>
>>I thought about mentioning that ALL SORTS of tournaments that are equally
>>"official" have been run by people using various versions of Chessmaster, but
>>decided against it, not knowing how zealous our new legal folks at Ubi Soft
>>might decide to be.
>>
>>My apologies again,
>>
>>jm
>
>Go find a vice president who isn't an idiot, and run this by them.  These people
>can often overrule overzealous corporate lawyers and other bureaucrats.
>
>bruce

You really think VPs don't answer to lawyers? ;-)

Either way, the only VPs in our new organization that could possibly override
this call are all in Paris (believe it or not), and we certainly have not built
up any kind of rapport with them to start rattling sabres this soon.

jm



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