Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:31:22 05/23/01
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On May 22, 2001 at 22:48:06, enrico carrisco 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 > >You ought to explain to them how this bureaucratic crap kills their product >image. > >-elc. That would be a bad thing at this time. They bought us, and they're A LOT bigger than us. Maybe in about a year we'll have more clout. The theory is that WE know how to make a product and THEY know how to market/sell/protect it. For now, they're in charge (which is their right, after all). jm
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