Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 18:38:38 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 20:43:57, Chessfun wrote: >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. Hi Sarah, the best way in this case is to wait of the official message about the GUI from Stefan and the UCI protocol. Free Shredder GUI: In my opinion not a good idea. If we have a free Shredder GUI is the marketing with strong engines not easy and a firm cann`t give the programmers money for his work. Example: The Fritz GUI is free and the concept. Marketing is then not easy ! So I think here also that it is a good idea to give the engine protocol free but not the GUI. But, I am not sure at the moment, about good marketing, protocols and other things. Best Frank Why Rebel and ChessBase ? We have also Convekta and the Chessmaster team. Convekta Software have more possibilitys compare to Schröder B.V. and Chessmaster is also very strong. Logic: Logic is that all chess base engine products have the same GUI :-) Logic is that we have CD without a GUI or maybe with GUI. Logic is that the GUI from Chess-Base is not free also the Shredder GUI ! Logic that a men cann´t full understand a women in the complete live.
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