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Subject: Re: Some vindications concerning the activation-constraint of Fruit

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 21:32:32 09/26/05

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On September 26, 2005 at 23:46:59, angela milazzo wrote:

>Dear Sirs;
>
>   Are you talking about a dongle? If so I nor my friends will buy your product.
>I will not attach such a device to mine or any one else's machine, they are
>hideous. You are just making it tougher on your legitimate customers, Crackers
>will crack that dongle despite whatever fool has convinced Fabien otherwise.
>
>
>   You know I have been downloading and playing the Winboard engines for many
>years. I am appalled by the fact that as soon as a program takes second place in
>some tournament it immediately goes commercial. For how many years was Crafty
>the number one program and Bob remained freeware. I and some other users will
>stick with the current freeware engines knowing that by this time next year some
>other new engine will be the one to beat.
>
>Thanks,
>Angela

 Nobody forces you to buy commercial ones. I'm using only freeware engines too.
Still, I would buy Fruit just to help Fabien in further development,
but I cannot afford investments of not vital importance now.
Btw, I have a feeling that Fruit2.2 is the "No.1" engine today, it's second
place is only due to the hardware differences in the WCCC tournament.

Robert



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