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Subject: Re: So is it Hydra or Shredder, which play Kasparov later this year?(NT)

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 15:16:16 03/18/04

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On March 18, 2004 at 07:45:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 18, 2004 at 04:20:04, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2004 at 02:32:00, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>Depend on who is willing to sponsor, but I believe that Hydra doesn't have a
>>future unless they are willing to make it affordable to the mass.
>>
>>PS: There is no sense in sponsoring Hydra against Kasparaov, unless there will
>>be a potential demand for the product.
>
>I'm not sure the idea is to sell anything. To me it looks more like a
>fun project to amuse an oil sjeik and promote the UAE a bit :)

I already find it funny: An Arab program named after a Greek creature, having
Austrian and German programmers and a Turkish book author.

It is promoted so aggressively as a "UAE program" that you wonder whether the
name "Christian" is a Muslim name :)


>
>--
>GCP



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