"Mike Vaughn" <mtvaughn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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article <nmo4b.1252$u96.18360@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, c-blair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Charles Blair) wrote:
> I certainly hope BridgeBaseOnline will continue to provide its
> wonderful free service. The Free Software Foundation subsists
> somehow on selling manuals and soliciting donations, but any
> model that keeps things running makes me happy.
>
> One distinction between BBO and OKB is the former does not maintain
> a player rating system. This probably makes BBO slightly cheaper
> in terms of overhead, and much less acrimonious.
Now if only Fred would write a Java client so that non-Microsoft computers
(UNIX, Mac, ...) could enjoy.
--
Mike Vaughn
"A ****p is safe in a harbor --
But that is not what ****ps are built for."