Author: ERIQ
Date: 19:57:10 08/03/01
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On August 03, 2001 at 17:28:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 03, 2001 at 16:48:47, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Does the existence of such strong free programs eat into profits? Might it >>signal the beginning of the end for commercial programs? (I hasten to say, I >>keep buying 'em, especially now that they no longer cost USD$100+ apiece.) > >How many versions did they sell then, and who for **** sake can get >a winboard version to work except a few freaks who are like 0.001% of >the people big companies like chessmaster and CB sell to? > >Best regards, >Vincent I agree that there are alot of people who do not want to take the effort to learn something new IE. xboard,linux,scid, etc. but the ones who do, need not be called freaks for it. I for one, thought that remark a bit much, to say the least. And I hope that people will start trying to learn more about their mashines and stop being puppets for microsuck, Chessbase and the like.
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