Author: David Dahlem
Date: 05:37:53 11/17/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 00:33:30, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Yawn ......
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