Author: Chessfun
Date: 17:43:57 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 14:50:31, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On May 16, 2001 at 14:31:04, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>The Shredder GUI is not free and this is good, because we will for sell the >>strong UCI engines, because the programmers can get a little bit ... > >I don't understand your point. The program authors can still publish commercial >engines even if the GUI is free. SMK could in principle release the GUI as a >shell for chess engines without charge and release Shredder as an optional >engine for money. > >The purpose of the WinBoard editions initially was to release otherwise >unattainable WinBoard engines. The advantage for the consumer was the free >nature of the WinBoard GUI, so that the cost was purely engine related. That is >my preference, ie. sparing the consumer from buying a load of silly GUIs >everytime they want a new engine. > >Mogens. I have read this thread and am a little confused. If Millennium no longer exists in terms of marketing and selling Shredder. And Shredder along with SMK go elsewhere either Rebel or Chessbase, then isn't it likely that Shredder would be ported to run in that companies existing GUI?. Therefore without the Shredder GUI being free and the engines being sold separetely as you wrote above. Will not now UCI simply die? Or even were SMK to try to market and sell Shredder independantly unless he allowed the GUI to be free and sold the Shredder engine, then it too would certainly die. This whole Winboard Edition II is somewhat odd IMO as why would anyone who didn't own the Shredder GUI buy it?. And since you need the GUI to run the engines, where is the logic on it not being a free GUI. Sarah.
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