Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 01:40:09 12/10/04
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On December 10, 2004 at 04:24:46, Graham Banks wrote: >If people can download Arena as freeware from your site, what's the problem with >them downloading it elsewhere for free? >Surely it's all good for the Arena team as people are using your program and >obviously getting a lot of enjoyment from it. This is surely positive rather >than negative? They would most likely visit the Arena site for information and >other files as they become hooked. > >Regards, Graham. The beta version isn't ready. The help files, new copyright files are not ready for Arena 1.1. Futhermore, Peter Skinner have no permission to do it. Simple: We are the owner of the software and say no! The owner of the software don't have to give a permission for an other publicity of the software, is this right in your opinion! I cann't believe it 58 downloads from a illegal version from our software in such a short time. We know that our software is popular, have 100.000 downloads in the latest year. After all the sitation is really bad. So many persons which don't accept the copyrights from our software and made a download from a site which don't have a permission ... in such a short time! I am to over 50% sure that our team (admins and the programmer) will have the same opinion that we have to go the commercial way because our team don't support such things! Perhaps other person, not we! For the long time testers of Arena we found an other sulution, I am sure! But it is so fast do dicusss about it, I am not at home and will discuss with the team in the evening. It's only my opinion about the situation. I believe, the computer chess area will loosed a great open project of development :-(( Best Frank
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