Author: Peter Berger
Date: 02:33:08 07/02/02
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On July 01, 2002 at 20:00:29, Christophe Theron wrote: >There are many more reasons why something like Linux will win in the end >(superior design, no cost, total transparency, no dependance on another company >to fix bugs critical to your own business and so on...). I am much more sceptical about Linux chances in the long run because of various too off-topic reasons. > >I'm currently considering offering the latest version of Chess Tiger for free to >Linux users (binaries only) and to provide updates in the future so Linux users >can have the most up to date version constantly. I'm not sure I will do it (and >I'm not sure I CAN do it legally), but I want to contribute something to this >OS. I feel I have to. > That would definitely boost Linux popularity in computerchessland I bet. The main problem with Linux for the consumer market is still the lack of competitive software IMHO. This is also partly a real problem - I think it is not trivial to get Linux folk to pay something for their software. Talking about computerchess Comet,Crafty and older versions of Yace and Sjeng isn't enough motivation for me to reinstall Linux ( they all work well in Windows, too). With Tiger availlable for Linux this would change very much :). And then when Tiger also worked in SCID and supported XBoard ... I hope your consideration will finish in a pro-Linux way. Peter
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