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Subject: Re: [-]    GM Rohde versus REBEL 10.5   [-]

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:34:34 08/04/99

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>Hi Fernando: You are doing OK in the political correctness department.  But
>then that's my opinion, so if your post or mine is deleted, we will know there was
>some failer to communicate somewhere.
>
>Anyway, as an attempt to be 'on-topic', I will say that I think I saw on the
>Rebel page initially, that the Rebel Windows version will be free to current
>owner's of Rebel10, but then later I think I saw a change, in that the Windows
>version was going to be free to current owner's for 30 days OWNLY, before the
>ievitable upgrade price was going to be charged.  In my opinion this is an
>unpleasent 'middle change' of policy regarding this product, (whenever it
>comes out), and I resent that there were some buyer's from previous versions to the
>Rebel10 version, thinking that eventually they would get the Rebel windows
>version for 'free'. I know that if I was told that I would have to pay for
>sure for the Windows version of Rebel, I would have skipped upgrading to version
>10, especially with the initial promise that it would be around this time in the
>year that the beta Windows version would be out.
>
>But I am not surprised that this 'promise' was (or is), going to be broken.
>Nothing is new in Marketing from these chess software companies, except my own
>understanding about how they fib. - Really the best & dirtiest joke is from
>them, to our addicts! pocket book...
>
>Larry

Larry, what has been promised is a "pre-release". The offer still stands
of course. Here is the text from my pages:

   A PRE-RELEASE of Rebel for Win95/98/NT will be available from
   the Rebel10 subscription download area for Rebel10 owners. The date
   for this pre-release is set for the period June/July 1999. Rebel10 owners
   who have subscribed to Rebel10 can download this version for free.

Ed Schroder




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