Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:28:25 10/22/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 17:35:10, Matthew Hull wrote:
>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
Don't worry, this won't last.
Great software for Linux is either already there, or almost ready to be
released.
Christophe
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