Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:41:49 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 05:20:43, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 24, 2005 at 04:10:36, Fabien Letouzey wrote: > >>On August 23, 2005 at 15:23:49, Ulf Flörsheimer wrote: >> >>>Does anybody know if, when and how the WCCC version of Fruit will be >>>distributed? >>> >>>Ulf >> >>I don't know myself. >> >>Professionals who came to WCCC said that Fruit is not a threat for their >>sellings. > >They do not know what they are talking about. > >I do not plan to buy Junior or Shredder or Fritz in case that fruit becomes >stronger than them. > >I am not the only person with these thoughts. >I do not say that professional are going to lose most of their customers because >of fruit but they certainly can lose customers unless they can be sure that >their program will be stronger than fruit so certainly the possibility of free >fruit is a threat for them(they cannot be sure that they will be able to >generate something better than future free fruit). > >Even in case that fruit does not become better than shredder, >there is still a risk that new programmers will learn from fruit2.1 and generate >something better than stefan. > >I think that Fruit may help stefan to improve Shredder but at the same time it >reduces his chances to keep the first place in the ssdf even if you never >release new fruit. > >Uri The Russians have a saying for that: "tough shitsky". If Stefan can't keep up, so what? Is that _anybody's_ responsibility other than his? Is it everyone else's responsibility to take actions such that Shredder stays on top? I don't see that responsibility being reasonable...
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