Re: Floater online bridge: portable, free, non-commercial

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:02:26 -0500, Lex Spoon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snip> 

>OkBridge used to be
>free, but started charging usage fees after it became popular.

You're (at best) misinformed about OKBridge's history. The
point at which OKBridge started charging fees was when it
moved from the university servers, where you could play for
free but only if you had (or could telnet into) a Unix box,
to Matt's own servers and using his own bandwidth. This was
the point at which people like myself, who had only a
Windows PC and no access to a Unix box, were able to start
playing on OKBridge. 

The big boom in OKB's popularity came *after* it started
charging, because getting their own hardware and
connectivity greatly increased the pool of potential
members. 


Brian.