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Subject: Re: Did Ferret ever become Freeware?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:33:48 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.

On the other hand, it ran on chess servers for a long time and ruled the world.



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