Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:46:48 09/23/02
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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? Dieter Bürßner and Robert Hyatt have written engines of professional strength and yet do not sell them. If we examine Leo's current contest, then we can add Carlos del Cacho, Frank Zibi, Thomas Mayer and others to that list as well. Instead of selling their chess engines, they give them away. I don't think that chess programming is an effective way to get rich, but perhaps it has worked out for two or three chess programmers. We might also ask why do people donate their time and energy to write Linux and the GCC compiler (among other things). It is possible for people to act in a noble way, even without any known form of compensation.
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