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Subject: Re: Which Goliath is at WMCCC?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:39:48 08/23/01

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On August 22, 2001 at 18:26:39, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Goliath Pro is something that never got a real chance to exist. It was the first
>goal of Michael B. to produce such a thing, I mean 3 or 4 years ago, but he
>never did so, first because a commercial problem with a partner, then probably
>for lack of capital and after that maybe by lack of reason as much the
>commercial field became, in the meantime, so full of players in the supply side
>that to begin a new endeavour is by now more a sign of insanity that a mark of
>enterpreneurial acumen. So the light versions that begun as a kind of coctail
>little snack for waiting the big thing became the real and only thing.
>that's tthe story as far as I know.


Thanks!  I was looking for just that kind of history.  Now my only unanswered
question remains, what sort of things makes Goliath Pro better than the
quite-strong downloadable ones?  Just tweaks of the evaluation, etc., for a
minor strength improvement, or something bigger?



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