Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:52:23 09/26/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 13:49:50, Uri Blass wrote: >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. I think that this is an unfair characterization of SMK. And if we go by this model, then De Konig is the smartest of all. >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. It sounds like it would be OK for that. I am not sure about the gain of running the same program on more than one computer, unless you are analyzing different positions.
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