Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 02:11:09 05/13/05
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On May 13, 2005 at 03:59:47, Henrik Dinesen wrote: >Hi Peter, > >Yeah, you're right. When it war up the release I asked: > >--- mail quote > >> I have to admit I was surprised to that see Shredder now also is divided >> into "deep" and not "deep". What was wrong with the selection in the >> settings? Is it a performance matter, convenience, or..? It makes me >> curious. > > Mainly commercial reasons, the effort of developing, maintaining and > improving a parallel search is otherwise not worth it. > > Best regards > Stefan > >--- mail quote end > >However, I appreciate he's honesty very much, and a quick answer isn't too bad >either. > >Henrik Hi Henrik, His business practice is perfectly fine with me. The problem is the way he treated his former consumer base. While he is honest and quick with his answers, there is also no wavering. He will simply not add the one feature that his users want to get the most out of the product they purchased from him. This is why I state he is getting to proprietary. He wants his users to use his interface and his alone. To get the best performance you _have_ to use _his_ interface. To me that is just plain garbage and quite arrogant. He could have offered a loyalty upgrade where if you proved you owned Shredder 8 that supported the dual processor format, then you could purchase Shredder 9 with the same options. Or a version that atleast had the "own book" option to use in any UCI compliant interface. Neither was done. He only cares about "commercial reasons" and not his customers anymore. Peter
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