Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 13:59:17 11/10/99
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>Such a change in the program in one afternoon is not possible. You have to think
>about all the consequences. What you can do in an amateur program that has just
>to run on YOUR computer is totally different than what you must do to make it
>work on the computers of ALL the potential customers.
It is true that it is very difficult to predict all the consequences.
I can give you an example : with a normal use of ChessBase 7.0 (sorting a
big database), the program crashed , important files were erased (the windows
directory...) and I had to reinstall Windows 98 on my notebook...
Who was responsable?
ChessBase programmers? They denied any responsability. They had never
seen such a thing happen. Bill Gates? Microsoft anti-fans told me that with
Linux such a crash would _never_ happen. But maybe the computer had a hardware
problem...?
If such a crash occured with the commercial version of Tiger,
for the customer _you_ would be the responsable (in my mind,
ChessBase programmers are 100% guilty for what happened to me
and I hate them :-) ). It is one of the reason that makes me
stay an eternal amateur...
>And I'm not even talking about the potential technical problems,
>incompatibilities, and Copyright issues.
I am aware of all the difficulties of selling a product that
have to run on _every_ PC!
Good luck anyway!
see you soon (when in Metropole ?)
Sylvain
>From a commercial point of view I regret I don't have them, but I don't think
>I'm providing a weak product to the customers anyway. It's a compromise, but the
>customers wins more than it loses because the program has other strong points.
>
>
> Christophe
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