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Subject: Re: Commercial entrants to future CCT's

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 15:42:11 02/23/05

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On February 23, 2005 at 12:20:39, Rémi Coulom wrote:

>On February 23, 2005 at 11:44:06, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>Maybe it is true. The gap between commercials and amateurs is to small for them
>>to risk their hefty sales positive only results.
>
>I do not think they risk anything by participating in a tournament. I even
>believe that being present without a good result should be better for their
>sales than not being present at all.

For the intelligent perhaps.  The rest of the community leaves the event with
the comment "X Commercial Program" sucks -- it lost against X or Y Amateur and
finished 5th (etc.)

-elc.

>
>>
>>Or maybe they are just spineless cowards.
>>
>>Peter
>
>You should not expect to get a lot of respect from programmers if you display
>this kind of attitude.
>
>Rémi



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