Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:09:59 10/24/02
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On October 24, 2002 at 11:13:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I disagree. If you get money for your program, you are commercial. Whether >you sold one or one million. If you get no money from your program, you are >>amateur. >Crafty has been on all sorts of CDs. I've never gotten one cent for it. No >way it could be considered "commercial". > >Commercial -> selling This is all fine and dandy, but you are ignoring reality here. The problem is that the ICCA charges a big entry fee for their events for professionals. I'll leave in the middle if it's reasonable or not; I'm sure Vincent will love to tell you some things about that. If you follow your definition (which is excellent and which I'd agree to if it were not for the current situation), then you will not be able to organize an ICCA event, because so many programmers will end up having to pay the large entry fee even though they make none or almost no money from their programs. Of the first 10 finishers in the 2002 WCCC, the numbers 6 to 10 would be gone. I don't think that is reasonable. -- GCP
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