Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:09:58 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 14:55:48, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 02, 2004 at 12:20:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On April 02, 2004 at 11:46:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>Vincent, I did not gave you permission to use *my* code in your convertor, or I >>>am missing something? >> >>Are you planning to sue me? >> >>Who says i have a special convertor by the way? >> >>Why wouldn't it be an option in an engine of mine? >> >>Note i always found your claims ridicioulous. Really sick microsoft way of doing >>things. >> >>Your first releases of your egtb code there was no copyright claim anywhere of >>you. It was released for the public. >> >>Then later "for commercial usage" one needed permission. >> >>By the way my commercial diep version will not have a byte of >>your code of course. > >I do not think that a lot of people will buy commercial chess programs in the >future because they will be able to get free programs of similiar level. > >In the past programmers made their program to make money. >I think that today most of the new programmers do not improve their program to >make money but to make people happy and I will not be surprised to see new free >smarthink or new free gothmog that is significantly better than Ruffian in less >than 2 years. > >Uri You're assuming that, for most people, the most important part of a chess program is the strength of the chess engine. The reality is that, for many MANY people, this is not as important as the overall feature set, tutorial content, UI quality and (in Chessmaster's case) reputation of the program. The vast majority of "typical computer chess software users" couldn't care less if the engine was Super-GM strength or GM strength...or even IM strength! Even if there were a hundred free Winboard engines stronger than The King, people would still buy Chessmaster because of the incredible value of the entire software package. Additionally, people typically don't find out about the existence of free engines without first delving into computer chess via a commercial package. I don't know how many people download Crafty each year, but I would suspect that each one of them has bought a commercial program first. jm
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