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While I think it’s a shame that nobody has been able to sue ChessBase for their software being utter garbage, I will cheer on this equally worthy endeavour.
by thom 5y ago
While I think it’s a shame that nobody has been able to sue ChessBase for their software being utter garbage, I will cheer on this equally worthy endeavour.
- orwin 5y agoIf company could be sued because their software are garbage, you won't have a lot of company left.
- sildur 5y agoThat wouldn't be necessarily bad, though.
- xondono 5y agoExcept then the courts would have to decide what constitutes “bad software”…
- ngngngng 5y agoAll of it?
- rataata_jr 5y agoExcept for lisp code approved by Stallman himself.
- omega3 5y agoHow is it utter garbage, it has a good library, works reasonably quickly and does analysis.
- thom 5y agoThe database is good. It's large, well curated and annotated. The UI is terrible, a sad relic from the MDI era. It's absolutely _not_ quick (you can constantly see it repainting, for example), search is extremely clunky, tools for match prep are awful, and it doesn't really have any good learning features. There's some vaguely interesting recent stuff like novelty mining but it's very limited (and why charge so much for database subscriptions only to make people do so much local eval?) I dunno, I still pay for it because the database is nice to have, but I'm always astonished by its success. YMMV.
- omega3 5y agoSure it could be better but to say it's utter garbage is a hyperbole.