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Subject: Re: Purchasing Fruit: a disappointment

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:49:50 09/26/05

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On September 26, 2005 at 13:29:43, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On September 26, 2005 at 13:05:01, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>I read with astonishment that I must submit a "fingerprint" of my computer if I
>>want to obtain a personal licence code for Fruit. Does this really mean that I
>>can't use it on 2 computers? Of the commercials I have Shredder, Gandalf, Deep
>>Sjeng and Ruffian, and I have installed all of them on 2 machines. And I did not
>>have to pay twice.
>>
>>Gábor
>
>Okay we expected a turmoil. ;-) You will be able to use it on two or more
>machines. Just submit your Hardware Fingerprint of each of your systems. There
>is no hard-limit but it should be clear that one license isn't meant for a
>10-machine-farm. Two or three are okay though. If you move to a new computer
>after some time you will get a new key for your new computer as well.
>
>We decided for activation since the market for pure playing strength is so small
>and selling Fruit only to a fraction of the actual user base won't yield in a
>significant turnover to support Fabien.
>
>Perhaps I should clarify that on the website more prominent (although it is in
>the Support-Area). But we don't want to invite key sharers frankly.
>
>I hope for your understanding.
>
>kind regards
>
>Joachim Rang

I clearly understand it.
It seems that fabien is smarter than SMK not only in programming but also in
making money and I guess that SMK could earn more money in case of using that
idea.

Note that there are exactly 3 computers that I practically use for analysis of
my correspondence games(in part of the time) but only one of them is defined as
my computer(the computer that I have at home).

I hope that it is ok if I buy fruit and use fruit in all of them.

Uri



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