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Subject: Re: I don't Care if Fruit2.2 is 100 points stronger then Fritz9,

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 17:21:07 10/06/05

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On October 06, 2005 at 19:55:56, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On October 06, 2005 at 19:45:49, Ryan B. wrote:
>
>>On October 06, 2005 at 19:21:18, William Sorin wrote:
>>
>>>The Copy Protection Baloney SUCKS! Looks like Fabien is trying to squeeze every
>>>ounce of profit out of his baby even at the expence of Lawful Owners. I won't
>>>ever buy Fruit!!
>>
>>
>>Why, does it hurt to send an email and enter a code?  Fabien has been very kind
>>to the chess community and I have reason to believe that there are people that
>>are trying to steal his product (if they have not already) that would have cost
>>them less than a lunch for 2 at Red Robin.  Yeah... anyway, I'm going to go eat
>>now.  Have a nice day and I hope you change your mind.
>
>What's going on here? Do you mean for a downloaded ver. or a CD? If it's a CD
>then no he shouldn't take copy protection to that extreme, it may indeed cost
>him more in the longrun than having no copy protection at all.
>
>Terry


Fruit 2.2 is download only so far.  I hope in the future it can be on CD with a
good GUI (for linux please) but I would guess that the cost of packageing would
be too much at this time to sell it on CD.



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