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Subject: Re: Purchasing Fruit: a disappointment

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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