Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 05:38:05 07/01/03
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On July 01, 2003 at 05:54:30, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 30, 2003 at 22:53:44, Michael Vox wrote: > >>On June 30, 2003 at 16:29:50, Kimberly Ann wrote: >> >>>On June 30, 2003 at 14:19:49, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>Hello Kimberly, don't worry about Moreland, he is not the moderator anymore. >> >>So we have a women here for a change and we wnat to delete here account ? >> >>Shame Shame Shame,.. >> >>Little story about Bruce. He had a decent program called Ferret and never >>released it during the days it was in high demand, now nobody will pay CA$H for >>it :) > >There are a lot of programmers who chose not to release their private program. >Your assumption that Ferret was in high demand has no basis. > >It was never tested by the ssdf so we do not know if it had chances against the >commercial programs in the past with one cpu. > >Maybe it was simply one of the many programs that are weaker than the commercial >programs. > >I remember a private program that won the french championship(unfortunately I do >not remember the exact name) and the programmer also chose not to release his >program(the fact that Ferret supported SMP was almost irrelevant in the past >when people usually used 1 processor). Chess wizard. BTW Ferret is hardly unique , there are many strong ones that have never being unreleased despite being sighted on ICC etc. See this list http://www.aarontay.per.sg/winboard/privateware.html Only a few are Ferret class, but many are close. Few free to hate those guys too :) Aaron >> >>A classic example of Moreland Bad-Jedgment -----> >> >>I hope Kimmy is allowed to stay... > >Maybe you should learn from her. >I did not find something bad with kimberly's post but I found something bad with >your post. > >Uri
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