Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 13:45:55 11/25/99
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On November 25, 1999 at 13:52:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On November 25, 1999 at 13:05:17, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On November 24, 1999 at 17:51:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On November 24, 1999 at 16:41:46, alfred palang wrote: >>> >>>>it's privateware.can't get it until bruce decides otherwise by selling it. i >>>>wouldn't know if selling it would make bruce richer or not. >>> >>>Money is a good thing but I'm very slow about getting it. I apologize to >>>everyone who has had to ask "where is Ferret?" for the past several years. >>> >>>bruce >> >> But at least you can make arrangements in your will, that in case that you >>suddenly pass away Ferret's executable files get distributed. And in a few years >>also the source code. >> It would be a big loss for computer chess is Ferret is lost forever. >>José. > >How would this be a big loss? Once can make a reasonable argument that losing >Bruce would be a big loss, but losing Ferret? You can't lose what you don't >have! > >Dave Ferret is an active player in computer tournaments, and a very succesful one. If it quits playing (for whatever reason), that will be a loss for computer chess. While we do not have Ferret running on our machines, we can at least study and discuss its games, and hope that Bruce chooses to sell it in the future. Some people play against Ferret in ICC, and it would be a loss for them too. Of course, I think that losing Bruce is a lot worse than losing Ferret. José.
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