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

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 08:25:16 01/16/06

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On January 15, 2006 at 05:54:06, Harvey Williamson wrote:

>On January 15, 2006 at 05:46:15, Henrik Dinesen wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>Hi Henrik,
>
>I don't have a problem with it either. However I do wonder what the attitude of
>posters here would be if CB sold software in a similar way?
>
>Best Wishes
>
>Harvey


Hi Harvey,

If CB tried to _sell_ via this forum, there would be a lot of trouble :-)
But if they made their own forum with support and info about bugs, new releases
etc. I guess most users would appreciate it. But as it is, they're keeping a
distance, often leaving people out in the dark.
I think good communication is the ahead, also for CB, but not any abuse of, say,
this club!

Best regards
Henrik



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