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Subject: Re: Buying Fritz GUI engines.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:14:16 11/07/01

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On November 06, 2001 at 13:58:44, Joshua Lee wrote:

>That ticks me off you pay $50 for the program yet you may already have 98% of
>the program from another product of theirs  so i essentially have two coppies of
>Fritz GUI but have GT 2.0 and Fritz 6.  If the owners cared about the money less
>they could just offer the engine and the DLL's if you already have the fritz
>gui. What's so bad about two different offerings of the same product

While I don't wish in any way to demean the GUI development that has been done,
I think that claiming that it represents 98% (measured by any of lines of code,
complexity, or effort expended) of the software package is ridiculous.

Dave



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