Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:35:43 11/10/99
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On November 10, 1999 at 17:20:41, Sylvain Renard wrote:
>
>>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 !
I have 9 PCs at home, and if things are not done correctly, it is easy to get 9
different behaviours from the engine and from the interface.
> Good luck,
> see you soon (when in Metropole?)
> Sylvain
I hope I can participate in person in the next FCCC. I have good memories of the
previous events. The problem is that when I'm here my program plays worse. :)
Christophe
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