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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.2 and copy protection of Chess Programs

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 01:14:53 10/30/05

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On October 29, 2005 at 06:45:18, William Penn wrote:

>On October 28, 2005 at 18:21:37, Jake Sisko wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Is Fruit 2.2 copy protection scheme the trend of the Future? I hear that there
>>is not one cracked version of the program. Perhaps Other companies will adopt
>>the same practices of Fruit to ensure that programmers actually get paid for
>>there work? Seems like a good ideal to me!
>
>The copy protection makes me hesitate to buy it, and I have no interest in
>cracking it. I just don't like to buy software that may have a problem
>installing in the future - after a computer crash, or if I buy a new computer.
>Authors and software companies go out of business frequently, then you're stuck
>with something you paid for but can't use. So maybe I'll stay with Fruit 2.1
>which is free and has no protection.
>WP

I don't share your concern in this case, simply because I trust the people
behind Fruit and their good intentions. They've promised that if they were
unable to continue, they give their customers an unlock-key.
I believe in that :)

The time spent with Fruit so far, has been a good one :-))

Regards
Henrik



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