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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:16:04 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.

You miss the fact that Fruit got first place in some tournament
http://freehosting.hostrave.com/p/iggor/aegt/aegt5_k.txt

I think that most commercial programs did not wait to second place in WCCC to
become commercial and became commercial earlier.


 For how many years was Crafty
>the number one program and Bob remained freeware.

I think that for not more than 0 years.
Crafty was never better than the best commercial program of it's time.

Uri



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