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

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 17:37:35 10/06/05

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On October 06, 2005 at 20:21:07, Ryan B. wrote:

>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.

Ah...that is different, then he needs optimum security in this case.

Terry



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