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Subject: Re: Too ed. schroder Just a thought

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 12:16:12 11/19/01

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On November 19, 2001 at 07:32:12, Volker Richey wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Some linux distributors (e.g. SUSE) sell 4 Linux
>updates / year for 4 * 50$ = 200$. What is now cheaper?
>

I don't understand that. Who is to say you have to buy
all four? In fact, why not just download all four for
nothing? Or buy one (for the documentation) and just
download the upgrades? Or why not just buy one and
keep it for a couple of years (you can get security
updates free of course)?

>
>I think the market for a professional chess program is to
>small for linux.
>

Certainly that's true.

Andrew

>But he could design his chess-software with an independent
>JAVA-GUI. This would be run on a Windows-GUI or a Linux-GUI.
>
>volker




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