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Subject: Re: Ferret Chess Regret?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:24:22 06/21/03

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On June 21, 2003 at 10:36:51, Eye Witness wrote:

>     Does Bruce Moreland, regret never releasing Ferret, and being completely
>stingy with a program?  There was a time where there was buzz about Ferret
>everyone wanted a copy, would have paid good money.  Moreland continually hemmed
>and hawed saying the interface wasn't ready blah blah blah etc, etc(which was
>his right i admit but stil blah blah blah).  Now, in my mind at least(most
>others i'm sure too) ferret has no commercial appeal, it could have been a name.
> Now it is a "might have been", not not even a "has been", because it never was!
> A shame a waste a program way past its prime, Ferret told me "it could have
>been a contender".  TSK TSk Tsk

Ferret is _still_ very strong.  Don't write it off.

It caused interesting "problems" at the last CCCT...





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