Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 11:12:08 05/23/01
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On May 23, 2001 at 13:31:22, John Merlino wrote: >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 And I suspect that Chessmaster was secondary aquisition, and that the Myst franchise was the main reason why Ubisoft was interested. :)
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