Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 14:20:41 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 it 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 deleted
(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 that before. Bill Gates? Microsoft anti-fans told me
that with Linux such a thing would _never_ happen.
Or maybe the computer manufacturer was responsable of a hardware problem?
If such a crash occured with the commercial version of Chess Tiger,
for the customer, _you_ would be responsable
(in my mind, ChessBase programmers are 100% guilty
for what happened to me, and I hate them :-) ).
It is one of the reasons that make me stay an eternal amateur...
>And I'm not even talking about the potential technical problems,
>incompatibilities, and Copyright issues.
Yes I am aware of the difficulty to sell a product that has to run
on _every_ PC !
Good luck,
see you soon (when in Metropole?)
Sylvain
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