Author: James T. Walker
Date: 16:12:32 09/27/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 14:45:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 26, 2005 at 14:32:14, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote: > >>On September 26, 2005 at 13:29:43, Joachim Rang wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>You cannot guarentee this. What if I buy a new computer in 2015? Will your >>website or company still exist? Yes? Take a 100.000 $ bet? > >I bet that in 2015 Fruit2.2 is going to be a weak engine and nobody will care >about it. >> >>This is a stupid deceision. You have piracy paranoia, just like the Zappa >>author. But software pirates are no threat to super expert's chess software: >>They are a threat for mainstream game software only, which any idiot can use. >>They cannot harm the sales of chess "engines" only experts know how to install, >>and need an existing GUI for to run. Your customers will either buy or ignore >>Fruit 2.2. Why care for the rest? > >Only experts know how to install Fruit? >I can teach every child how to install Fruit in Fritz GUI easily. > >I know that there is a lot of piracy against chessbase software and I believe >that big majority of the chess players that use Fritz or Junior did not buy it. I suspect that most of those people would not purchase Fritz/Junior even if they could not pirate it. They are just plain cheap and simply take pleasure in getting anything they can for free. > >Uri
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