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Subject: Re: Ferret = Freeware

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:37:18 08/22/01

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On August 22, 2001 at 17:00:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 22, 2001 at 16:36:42, Charles Young wrote:
>
>>After the first two rounds I thought Ferret might win.  However, now it looks
>>like it is going to be another freeware program downloadable at Frank Quisinky's
>>webpage soon.
>
>I do not expect Ferret to be freeware and I have no problem with it.
>
>I do not think that every program that is not stronger than Crafty,goliath or
>other programs should be freeware.
>
>I totally respect the decision of a programmer not to do her(his) program
>freeware even if it is the weakest program in the world.
>
>Uri

I agree. And we don't all need to be able to get our hands on every program out
there that exists.  If we did, we'd already be way behind schedule before Bruce
ever created Ferret, because there's all sorts of relatively famous Chess
programs that were never distributed.

But hey, we all got that cool little Gerbil program from Bruce (AND the code!)
so we should be happy with what he did release the way I figure it.

Pete



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