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Subject: Re: I have lost my faith in 3 engines

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 20:44:53 12/11/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 03:20:28, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Sorry for programmers, but I have waited YEARS in vain to get better version of
>these  engines: Crafty, Goliath and Comet. Noe I removed all versions from my
>hard
>disk.
>
>Jouni

Why?  Were you promised an upgrade? did you expect  lifetime upgrades - and
exactly how much did you pay these authors that kept you waiting?  And how may
years were you waiting?

Microsoft with thousands of employees  had 6 different flavors of Windows
Win3.1, WinNT, WIN 95, WIN 98 , WIN2K, and WINXP over the last 10 years or so
and made billions doing so.

Bob Hyatt, by himself, provided well over 100 Crafty different flavors  and got
paid zippo.

But as they say in the Mastercard commercial - for many of us, Crafty have been
"priceless".

Keep up the good work Bob!

Cheers!






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