Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:07:33 09/26/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 14:42:19, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On September 26, 2005 at 14:21:12, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On September 26, 2005 at 13:49:50, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>Do you really feel this system is smarter? I bought and payed for Shredder 9 UCI >>(same as nearly every other commercial program I might add, and several versions >>of them ). But I certainly won't buy Fruit under these conditions. >> >>I expect if we talk about "hardcore users", you will find several who own what >>Joachim Rang would call a "machine-farm". I don't think many of them will >>seriously consider buying several copies of Fruit or start negotiations with the >>vendor. I know I won't :) . >> >>Peter > >Hi Peter, > >a difficult issue. I can understand Fabien. I have seen in german chess clubs >for instance, that "hardcore users" passed some (pirate?) copies around. My >guess, as i sold IsiChess in 94-97: at least 10 pirate copies from one sold, if >not even more. > >Otoh i can understand honest customers, harmed by copy protection. > >Gerd I can understand what the Fruit team wants to achieve here, and it's their decision anyway. Same as it's the customers' decision to buy or not buy something, and this will be different for everybody. It's just business - you win some, you lose some. But I don't believe it's a smart idea at all, if a program that is mainly targetted at a special market uses such a system, and so I was prompted to utter my disagreement with Uri. I have a more or less complete collection of commercial chess software published since 1996 or 1997, with only a few very esotherical ones missing. And a very few I didn't buy on purpose because their way to deal with honest customers annoyed me to the extreme. Major example would be Rebel. I bought Rebel 9 ( or was it 7 ? ) and it had something like 3 installations sitting on its disk. It was most probably my mistake alone as a dumb user to lose them, but I never got to really play against this silly program even once (and had nasty discussions with the shop owner where I had bought it , that led nowhere, and it hadn't been cheap). And for years to come I decided to avoid this Rebel thingy .. - fool me once .., you know :) . Now the Rebel company was actually very customer friendly in reality and soon changed this system anyway (and had I known how to contact them directly my problem would have been resolved I know now), but they had lost me by then . Peter
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