Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 14:35:10 10/22/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 16:47:22, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Most of Todays progs play at senior master and above, easily. As far as I'm concerned, paying $50 bucks for a prog that's 50 - 150 ELO stronger than a free prog is not a wise investment. I can understand that some folk like having the latest and greatest, even if it's just a smidgen better than the last iteration. I choose not to fall into that rut. But hey, it's only money, and not trunk-loads of it either. > >> >>It's a bit like paying $200 bucks for Windows when Linux can be had for $5. > >Linux does not give the same things. It depends upon the dependencies a person has allowed themselves to fall into. > >People complain that they cannot run most of the chess software on Linux and >chess software is not the only problem. I don't like software that forces me into dependency upon monopolistic vendors. It is a pity that software developers have done the same to themselves, by adopting tools that encourage platform dependent design, instead of platform independent design. This violates the basic tenets of programming that I learned in college (before the days of the IBM PC). Flexibility, updateability, portability. These concepts are no longer taught it seems, except perhaps in the UNIX world. The results speak for themselves: Users that have no choices; vendors that have inflexible, unportable code; and the monopolist has his hands in all their pockets forever. MH > >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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