Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 13:24:52 09/26/02
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On September 26, 2002 at 05:46:40, Torstein Hall wrote: >On September 25, 2002 at 17:36:15, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On September 25, 2002 at 17:25:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>It seems to differ only in name. As much as Lang discovered he can get some >>>profit from old Genius engines running in hand held devics, maybe now he gave >>>another daring step and found he can get extra profit re-baptizising old engines >>>for PC stuff. >>>Who knows >>>Fernando >> >> >>For his sake, I hope he can sell it as Chess Genius 8.0 next year and Chess >>Genius 9.0 in 2004! >> >>;-) > >If there is nothing new expect the version number I feel this is fraud. I do not >think such a practice is better than pirating software or shoplifting. >If this realy is the case, how many people have bought the same program with a >different name, beliving it was something new? It could be the result of a change of ownership (ie the copyright bought back, or similar); I know that Richard Lang wanted to buy back the original Psion Chess but Psion refused and clung onto it. Is Genius version 6.5 still being sold? I agree that changing the version number appears dubious. but doing so could've been a condition of any agreement. In any case, games software is frequently repackaged, sometimes multiple times, and so is music. The bad state of the classical music industry has led, here, to boxed sets of four CDs being sold for £20 which were previously being sold for £13 each. (I've filled a lot of gaps that way, and didn't think of crying "fraud" because the one disk I did have cost me £13 but was now effectively costing £5!) Alastair
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