Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 04:17:51 09/23/02
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On September 23, 2002 at 07:06:37, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 23, 2002 at 04:37:03, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>On September 23, 2002 at 03:06:15, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>There's one thing, which very difficult to understand: If Ruffian really is so >>>strong, why the author want not to make some money from it and also get >>>compensation for 1000s of development hours? >>> >>>Jouni >> >>Hi Jouni, >> >>why the author must make money? >>Money is not all ... > >There are poor people that for them money >is important. > >The author can give the money to them if >he does not want to make money. > >A possible theory is that the author >believes that doing his program free and >releasing a better version >as commercial in the future is going to >help him to make more money. > >Uri Hi, for some people is computer chess hobby and not more. This group of people have no interest to make mony with chess software. This is OK for me! Other people will have money for his programs. This is also OK for me but the software must runs with standards. It's not the best way that 160 programs works with standards and professional programmers are thinking he must ignore every normaly standard for computer chess and must another sausage roast. Example: WinBoard Best Frank
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