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Subject: Re: explanation for people who still don't get it

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:42:26 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 10:27:24, Mike S. wrote:

>On June 19, 2003 at 10:00:00, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On June 19, 2003 at 09:42:52, Mike S. wrote:
>>
>>>(...)
>>>So, if they would provide the *single CPU* version customers with an SMP engine
>>>as a replacement for the missing Kasparov single engine, all the *Deep* Junior 8
>>>customers will complain.
>
>>I see nothing to complain about for customers of Deep Junior.
>>They knew the price and they bought it.
>
>Of course there would be complains, even much more and louder than the complains
>are now. IMO this would also be a much better reason to complain than there is
>now. You wouldn't read anything else in 1.000 postings in CCC, for weeks!!
>
>>People who complain about good things that other people get legally are simply
>>bad people.
>
>Be realistic, if *you* had payed 100 $ for something, and a lot of people would
>get more or less the same the next day, for half the price: You would not
>complain?

No


 Come on...
>
>It's obvious that ChessBase can't do this IMO.
>
>(But realism isn't a strong point on message boards on the internet; I'm aware
>of it...)
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
>
>
>P.S.: Btw. I had a similar experience when I bought an older program for the
>full price, only to discover a few days later that the very same program was
>sold under another name already, for a much smaller price. Nobody had told me
>about it. That is no fun at all. It made no sense to complain from a "legal"
>viewpoint in that case, though... but it's something you keep in mind then. It
>feels like being cheated.

I do not feel that way.

Uri



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