Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:33:30 11/16/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 00:22:01, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 16, 2004 at 20:14:23, Jonas Bylund wrote: > >>On November 16, 2004 at 19:49:37, Dick Long wrote: >> >>>On November 16, 2004 at 19:32:57, Mike Byrne wrote: >>> >>>>On November 16, 2004 at 19:13:03, Dick Long wrote: >>>> >>>>>Did Ferret ever become Freeware? If so where can you get it? Just wondering >>>>>because Bruce after years of promise never has and obviously never will put it >>>>>on the market. Further it's not as good compared to other programs now as it was >>>>>vs some older programs. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks >>>> >>>> >>>>No - but it was clearly near the top at one time and at it's best , it was top >>>>amatuer for its day. >>>> >>>>Perhaps some day he will release it - but I have no reason to suspect that he >>>>may. >>> >>>Thanks , Too bad years ago he could have sold it to rebel or chessbase, and made >>>a nice piece of change easy. He just kept hmmming and hawing, i was like come >>>on bruce. He just refused. Tsk Tsk Tsk. >> >> >>Not everbody is interested in money... > >Of course but Bruce also never made it a free program and never sent it to >tournaments like Leo's WBEC so everybody could see what is it's strength >relative to other programs on equal hardware. > >Uri Of course Bruce does not have to explain and it is his own program but the fact that he never sent it to tournaments like WBEC or other tournaments is something that I do not understand because I expect programmers to be interested in results of their own program against different programs. Not releasing a free program is clearly understandable because of all the clones and I can also understand a decision not to sell the program if you believe that you cannot make enough money from it(I have no idea how much money earn the programmers of ktulu or partiot and maybe Bruce believes that the money that he can earn or could earn from selling Ferret is not enough money to justify caring about customers). Uri
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