Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 21:59:25 12/14/99
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On December 14, 1999 at 23:41:02, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On December 14, 1999 at 23:24:21, Martin Grabriel wrote: > >>Piracy? The whole purpose of offering a demo is to have as many people test it >>right? I bought Fritz6 with hard cash only to find out that there is a demo with >>what appears to be THE engine. Understand how I feel? > >The purpose of a demo is to enable people to try out a program before they have >to buy it. Someone who is interested but not sure if they want to plunk their >money down can check it out, start liking it, and decide they want to buy it. >Or conversely (though I think this happens less) they may decide that it's not >the product for them. > >It is certainly _not_ the case that the purpose of a demo is to allow people to >rip out parts of its compiled code and use those parts in different >applications. So no, I don't understand how you feel. I just understand that I >feel bad that I brought up Eidos in the first place. Like the people who worked >to make Fritz 6, I write software too, and having people steal your work is a >pretty bad feeling. > >Dave Now let me get this strait. A demo is bought out and I assume Chessabase knows about this Demo. And Fritz6 from what I hear is more than just an engine update. So if they bring this out then if the engine can be taken out and used without any alteration of the program, without any crack, then what is the big deal, they must have known that this was going to happen, this is not stealing anything. This reminds me of the Rebel 10 release then how Ed dropped the price a couple of weeks later. Are you people more upset that some can get the engine for nothing, or that you payed money for it when if you waited you could have got the engine for nothing like so many people seem to be stating now. And I assume that the engine is not the same, but who knows. All I can say is stop worrying about chessbase and play with whatever program you have and how ever you got it.
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