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Subject: Re: Why ChessBase is Forbidden What Vasik Rajlich is doing all the time?

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 02:46:15 01/15/06

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On January 14, 2006 at 20:24:32, Harvey Williamson wrote:

>On January 14, 2006 at 18:14:28, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>Rolf, as much as i enjoy your interchanges for their soap opera quality, I don't
>>think your accusations are quire fair. They rest on the assumption that  Vasik
>>is somehow manipulating us into promoting his product.
>>
>>I test the Rybka  betas because it is fun. I think that is what motivates
>>others.
>>
>>People here at CCC are very critical consumers. We are not being manipulated. We
>>are having fun.
>>
>>best
>>J
>
>Isn't the point here (I think it is fantastic marketing)that we are all paying
>to be beta testers?
>

If you don't submit anything to Vas, you can't be counted as a tester in any
way.
But if you do, you don't have to wait long to see something happening. That's a
good exchange, and some more established compagnies could learn a lot. Actually
we saw a somewhat similar approach with Fruit when it turned commercial.
I don't see anything bad here :)

Henrik



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