"Giovanni Bobbio" <gb2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Vaughn wrote:
> In 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.
Funnily enough there already exists a java client. Look at the Deal of the
week, it's just a .lin viewer and is far from being the equivalent of the
real BBO interface, but...
--
Giovanni
Italy
