Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:33:16 10/29/98
Enrique is right even returning from the dentist: an era is ending, gold or silver, you name it. In fact was ending since long time ago. Prices are falling, individual, artisan kind of programmers cannot get anymore an income of this and go out bussiness or never go in seriously and so and so. And this happens all around. Three days ago the owner and director of one of the last european computer chess magazines gave me a telephone call to tell me he is almost out of busines and surely his magazine will dye soon, if it is not already dead. Maybe it is not very scientific to add aples with bananas, but you cannot forget also the troubles of SSDF endeavor has shown, the disaparition of some companies, the vanishing of some programmers, etc, etc. I do not say Dooms Day has come, but certainly we are going into a new era where David Crockets will have no room and certainly Ed is one of those Crockets. I hope he will survive because he deserves to survive, but slashing prices in half so soon is not a signal of good bussines or at least show that bussines will not continue for him as before. As much as my data are reliable, I would say he is trying to cope with the inminent arrival of a new monster package with the kind of prices Mindscapes has been dealing in this field long ago. What else he can do? There is a lot more to say about this, but this is enough for now. Strangelu enough, I have no feeling of happyness due to the fact I have not already bought Rebel and now I can get it at half price. As an spanish saying say: bread for today, hunger for tomorrow. Fernando
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