Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 10:47:22 09/19/98
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Cstal is not designed to make money. If so we would have released at least 1 version each christmas, and at least one version each summer. But chris doesn't. CSTal does not costs 200 DM. it costs less. it is made to come in contact with all kind of nice guys, like you e.g. to exchange ideas about chess, talk about games, to have fun with chess. It is NOT, again, NOT made to make money. Version 284 was on the server. Than ersion 289 was put on the server. Moritz, Dirk and Harald Faber complained in rgcc that this version 289 consisted of 2 versions (cstwhite/cstblack). I don't understand this complaint, because it was for free. IMO if a company gives something for the customer, the customer can hint or comment, but he has no right to complain. Because so many people complaint, chris threw the version from the server. Later a programmer put the older version (with one executable) again on the server because ordinary customers asked for the paris version. This programmer did not know about the broken engine, he only wanted to help ordinary customers. Now suddenly anybody here has forgotten this story although it was discussed month ago in rgcc. Suddenly moritz comes and says he tests the broken version although this version was replaced by the bette 289 version. We have now decided to delete 284 too. Now the customer gets no version (for free). The idea to support the customer with new version has died. Because we were unsatisfied with the comments we got from some "experts" and their strange point of "customer-rights". If you get something for free, why do you have the right to complain in public ? You don't have to use the FREE-Upgrade, or ? We also consider not to release the win95 version of cstal because we don't wanna live and share our program together with a bunch of complaining people. May they better not buy cstal. may they buy fritz. and pay for the upgrade. oxford softworks is a company with a different philosophy. It does not maximize for money... Your comments about chris were in my opinion not made to attack him. You only wanted to explain and help. I will not mix this together with the comments of other people. Don't worry. We will still develop the program. Because computerchess makes fun to us. But we decide when and where and with whom to share our baby.
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