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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