Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:37:58 03/25/99
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On March 25, 1999 at 10:02:37, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On March 25, 1999 at 08:05:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 25, 1999 at 07:08:57, Robert Ericsson wrote: >> >>>I have just read at Gambit-SOFT News that Crafty will not be for free >>>download anymore. >>> >>>I can understand Dr. Hyatt's decision and all I can say is a BIG thank you >>>to Bob for all previous free downloads of Crafty!! >>> >>>I enjoy Crafty very much. I hope we will hear from you here at CCC though. >>>Good luck with your future programming! >>> >>>Yours sincerely, >>>Robert Ericsson >> >> >>Crafty will continue to be available. Just not via anonymous ftp, so that I >>can maintain some sort of control over it. I don't know how it will be done >>just yet, but details will be posted here soon. > >Maybe you can distribute executables by anonymous FTP. My guess >is that at least 80% of Crafty users will be happy with it. > >Eugene That doesn't solve the 'drafty' problem.. because it is not terribly hard to use a hex editor to find the various strings in crafty and change them to some sort of profanity. Tablebases and the PGN game collections are 'up' still. And crafty will be again once I find a way to exert some control over it. IE the license agreement will likely change, although the cost will _always_ be what it is today. :)
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