Author: Graham Banks
Date: 02:00:29 12/10/04
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On December 10, 2004 at 04:40:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >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 I can see both points of view and both have some validity. What I do think though is that an over reaction could do more harm than good. However I'm not taking sides on this one. I hope that a gentleman's agreement can be reached to settle this issue as I respect both Peter and yourself as fne contributors to the computer chess community. Graham.
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