Given the speed with which CB released a Fritz 12 update (http://fritzserver.org/updates/gui12.exe) with an updated Rybka, I'm guessing that the "time pressure" was coming from them.
I am pretty annoyed that, 9 months later, sampled search, "go wtime" and "go depth" are (still) busted.
Jeremy Bernstein wrote:Given the speed with which CB released a Fritz 12 update (http://fritzserver.org/updates/gui12.exe) with an updated Rybka, I'm guessing that the "time pressure" was coming from them.
I am pretty annoyed that, 9 months later, sampled search, "go wtime" and "go depth" are (still) busted.
I'm afraid that I don't really agree -- why should I be satisfied with the scraps? At a certain point, professional shame needs to kick in over at Rajlich & Co., once again releasing unfinished work, with little hope of any remedy for the consumer.
I'm afraid that I don't really agree -- why should I be satisfied with the scraps? At a certain point, professional shame needs to kick in over at Rajlich & Co., once again releasing unfinished work, with little hope of any remedy for the consumer.
Given the history, am just happy there was even an update.
For a bug-fix maintenance update, no money comes in. Therefore, unless the author/company cares about customer service, there's no reason to hurry. Besides, the time spent taking care of the customers can be better spent decompiling programs, obfuscating code, meeting with attorneys over pending lawsuits and prosecution, destroying the source of various versions that might be requested by subpoena at a future date, and thinking up stories to tell people who ask questions about the originality of software.
Tom Barrister wrote:For a bug-fix maintenance update, no money comes in. Therefore, unless the author/company cares about customer service, there's no reason to hurry. Besides, the time spent taking care of the customers can be better spent decompiling programs, obfuscating code, meeting with attorneys over pending lawsuits and prosecution, destroying the source of various versions that might be requested by subpoena at a future date, and thinking up stories to tell people who ask questions about the originality of software.
I'd much rather see the money spent on lawyers than stoopid bug fixes. Priorities!
Note 2: The updater uses JoJoDiff by Joris Heirbaut, it is not necessary to download it, but the source of JoJoDiff can be obtained from http://jojodiff.sourceforge.net/
but in jdiff.c we find a license:
Parts or all of this source code may only be reused within other GNU free, open
* source, software.
* So if your project is not an open source project, you are non entitled to read
* any further [...]