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Subject: Re: CM6000 too cheap?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 20:15:19 06/02/99

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On June 02, 1999 at 20:59:58, James Robertson wrote:

>On June 02, 1999 at 15:28:31, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On June 02, 1999 at 14:09:01, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>On June 02, 1999 at 06:51:14, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>On June 02, 1999 at 05:20:21, Georg Langrath wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The only reason why so many think that it must be something wrong with CM6000
>>>>>among the best engines is that it is so cheap. If it costed twice what it does
>>>>>today nobody would be surprised.
>>>>>
>>>>>Georg
>>>>
>>>>It is all because of jealousy, people spending biug buck only to find that cheap
>>>>one is better, than we hear the defenses of how the expensive product is better.
>>>
>>>Maybe not even jealousy, as they could just go out and buy the program. How
>>>about maybe they are galled they spent so much money. :)
>>>
>>>James
>>
>>Yes, I spent a lot of money on Crafty :)
>>
>>Dave
>
>If you buy Shredder and get Crafty, you have still spent more money on those two
>programs than you would have having bought two copies of CM6k. :)
>
>James

But since I beta-tested for Rebel and downloaded Crafty, I spent less money than
if I had bought 1/100th of a copy of CM6k. :)

Dave



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