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Subject: Re: Sadly, CM8000 must withdraw

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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