Author: Dan Homan
Date: 01:52:41 08/05/98
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On August 05, 1998 at 03:12:25, Shaun Graham wrote: >On August 05, 1998 at 01:01:27, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On August 05, 1998 at 00:26:06, Shaun Graham wrote: >> >>>Not as long as you can provide the best product, especially in strength(though i >>>must say, Rebel does need to be able to use engines from other programs because >>>that feature of fritz, is just too easy, time saving and fun to get away from. >> >>This problem would be easily solved if all programmers could just spend a >>couple of hours making their programs xboard/winboard compatible. This would >>also solve the autoplay problem. > >Well if they were compatible with winboard there copyright protection would be >blown, so that's out. How??? I should think it would be quite possible to have effective copyright protection and be winboard compatitable. In fact, I can think of no difficulty here at all.... other than the programs would now show up in huge numbers on the servers. In fact, I would think that the first commercial program to do this would have a very large sales spike. They don't even need to be Winboard compatitable, just ICS compatitable - it would still be possible to do automated testing on a local network. In fact, I've always wondered why they don't show up automated already on the ICS serves... Most top programs are Auto232 compatible, and I would have guessed that someone would have written an auto232 to ICS interface by now. - Dan >> >>Tord >>/
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