Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:12:48 05/28/03
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On May 28, 2003 at 15:38:22, Tom Likens wrote:
>On May 27, 2003 at 18:22:59, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>
>>To answer your question, yes there will be a free version of Chess Tiger for
>>Linux soon. Without GUI, so maybe it will be XBoard compatible.
>>
>> Christophe
>
>I suppose I should have my head examined for asking this, but why
>make it free? I'd be willing to pay good money for it and I'm
>guessing a decent number of others would as well. Even if it were
>an Xboard engine only, it would still IMHO be worth buying.
>
>I'm not disparaging your generousity, but it seems to me that
>without monetary rewards there is no incentive for commercial
>programmers to bring their engines to Linux. I also run Win4Lin,
>but I find native programs easier to use and thus would
>rather have the engines targeted as actual Linux programs.
>
>Anyway, just my 2-cents.
>
>regards,
>--tom
I really want to give something back to the Linux community, and the money I
could make from the Linux version would anyway not compensate for the time I am
going to spend on it.
I really hope that in the future making it commercial will pay, because then it
will mean that Linux has become widely accepted and used.
But for now I'll be satisfied if I can convince a few CCC readers to try out
Linux because there is a free version of Tiger for it.
They will try Linux for the free Tiger (maybe) and they will keep it because
it's an excellent operating system, I'm sure. OK, one can always dream! :)
Christophe
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