Author: Amir Ban
Date: 02:06:49 11/10/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 17:55:34, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On November 09, 1998 at 16:05:08, Herbert Gindl wrote: > >>What about the people who want to use Rebel10 with their chess232 board? Have >>they to wait for Rebel11??? > >looks like :-))) > >don't you get this ? >CHESSBASE has begun a tug of war. they ignored a gentleman-agreement. to get a >special advantage. all the others were overtaken as a result. >they others now react with putting the autoplayer feature out of their programs. >the customer is betrayed. first because chessbase cheated with misusing the >gentleman agreement. second because they are victims of the decisions of the >reaction of the programmers. > >a tug of war is always shit. > >and anyone is a victim in a war. > It's always a good idea when making this kind of remarks to make it clear that you are not representing the vendor (Ed & Rebel in this case). I hope that everyone who read your post understood that. Customers may or may not care about the autoplayer feature, but they certainly won't appreciate being talked to in this way. >therefore i was so heavily against matthias wuellenweber declaring this war >to the programmers WITHOUT ANY NEED. > >if somebody throws 2 atomic-bombs on hiroshima / nagasaki, without ANY need, >one cannot say that this guy is a humanist, or is a peaceful guy. or wants to >give the world something. >the same with chessbase. their "decision" (to throw an atomic-bomb on sweden) >was not a nice gift to the world too. This is an awful parallel to draw here. If we allow this, why not the N-word ? Let's tone this down a few decibels. Amir
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