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Subject: Re: Happy to know Ruffian will become commercial, because....

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:47:22 10/22/03

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On October 22, 2003 at 16:28:33, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On October 22, 2003 at 14:16:15, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>...because then I have some assurance I will get some even strongers engines in
>>the future. Why should this guy keep giving us gold for nothing?
>>We are talking, probably, of around 30 bucks. Not the big deal. Sure the guys
>>crying here expend lot more sipping beer just one saturday night.
>>Fernando
>
>I personally cannot see that $30 will get you better answers, or better games
>than fine engines like crafty, especially considering that nobody around here is
>a even an IM.

Totally irrelevant.

By the same logic you can say that you do not see a reason to buy faster cars
when nobody here has chances to run even only faster than the old cars.

>
>It's a bit like paying $200 bucks for Windows when Linux can be had for $5.

Linux does not give the same things.

People complain that they cannot run most of the chess software on Linux and
chess software is not the only problem.

Maybe if some good programmer can write a program that translate every source
code for programs that run under windows to equivalent source code that run
under linux things may be different.

Otherwise programmers are going to continue to release applications that are
only for windows.

Uri



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