Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 15:23:37 09/19/98
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On September 19, 1998 at 13:47:22, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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). FACT: I did NOT complain in r.g.c.c. that it was 2 versions. >I don't understand this complaint, because it was for free. Certainly this complaint was for free. Sad that it only exists in your imagination. >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. ... so many people "complaint" ... you named 3, actually I didn't complain, so what? >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. Which was again replaced by 284. >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 ? Where did I complain? I just posted the games from a Nunn test where I even gave CST a 2.5x speed advantage vs. Hiarcs! (PII-400 vs. P233MMX). Does this sound like unfair conditions for CST? >You don't have to use the FREE-Upgrade, or ? Sorry, I just followed the recommendations in the readme file, assuming that the author of that text knew what he was talking about. Moritz
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