Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:50:53 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 15:24:51, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On September 05, 2000 at 14:54:23, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I do not see a reason that you think that paying money for the programmer is >>right when paying for a beta teter that I see as part of the team behind the >>chess program (assuming that the information of the beta tester was productive >>to improve the program) is not right. > >I'm not interested in paying money for the programmer :o). > >You're already getting paid indirectly be being a betatester as you don't have >to buy the program you're testing. That is more than sufficient payment IMHO and >that goes for most people I think. I do not think that you are right. Most people will say that getting the program that you test is not sufficient. Unless you think you're something special >when it comes to chess software, or the Universe in general. I believe that I have some productive ideas for chess program that I did not discover and chess programs do not use. > >When I buy a program from someone I don't keep on paying the software company, >nor do they have to continue paying me when they've already given me the >program. It is a different case. You are a customer of the software company. The relation here is programmer-customer. You do not help them to improve their product by buying their program. Beta testers help programmers to improve their programs so they are part of the team even if the programmers do not admit it. Uri
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