Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:09:17 08/25/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 05:54:28, Roger Kyte wrote: >On August 25, 2000 at 04:47:39, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On August 23, 2000 at 21:47:04, Roger Kyte wrote: >> >>>On August 23, 2000 at 02:25:13, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>It is nice to meet people in person. If you haven't gone to one of these, and >>>>you have a program, I recommend that you go. You'll meet some interesting >>>>people, and learn a lot. >>>> >>>>If things are done over the internet, there is less communication and less >>>>common experience. >>>> >>>>I'm happy to go, I just don't want it always to be me who pays for the 11-hour >>>>plane trip. >>>> >>>>bruce >>> >>>You complain that it costs money to participate in a prize fund match. >>> >>>Also, you do not release your program as an engine for sale, perhaps as a >>>chessbase engine, this would also cover your expenses and then some. >>> >>>I think you have to take part of the blame for your financial woes and not blame >>>others. >> >>I don't have any financial woes. I just don't want to pay for it and sit on the >>plane forever this year. >> >>bruce > >That is fine, you do not have to participate, but please stop complaining about >the few thousand dollars in expenses you would have to incur. If you ran your >computer chess activities properly this could be written off as a business >expense against revenues. > >Do you think WMCC should pay for your plane ticket and nobody else's ?? > >Sponsors are not that interested in computer chess anymore, as pubic interest >has dropped. > >In this case, similiar to Crafty, this is your hobby no revenues are generated. >Do you honestly believe somebody should give you money to support your hobby ?? > >That is not very American of you -:) This is from bruce's post: "I just don't want it always to be me who pays for the 11-hour plane trip." I think that you did not understand bruce. He did not complain about the fact that he always has to pay but about the fact that he always has to pay for 11-hour plane trip. Programmers from Europe do not have to pay for *11* hour plane trip and not because of sponsors. Uri
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