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Subject: Re: chessbase to become the microsoft of chess

Author: Jay Rinde

Date: 14:50:25 11/02/98

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I don't know. People who buy chess computer software are strange. They keep
buying chess programs they don't use. They buy them, try them, and hide them.
Yeah, I keep getting them. Most aren't on my hard drive anymore, or if they are
they get little use. Like that spooky guy with the cough drop beard says about
cigarettes---"its an addiction, not a habit." Well, maybe both!

On November 02, 1998 at 16:26:31, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On November 01, 1998 at 11:51:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>For the community of chess programmers, this would be the *last* development.
>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>Exactly Christophe. This is / would be ORVELL in computerchess.
>nobody else is allowe dto breathe, like microsoft tries to kill any other big-
>computer-company.
>There have been many nice products, stacker, geoworks, dr-dos, gem for PC,
>and many of them much better than windows or word.
>BUT : they got the most customers due to lying advertisments.
>
>What a pity. Geoworks was faster, compatible and multitasking on an XT.



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