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Subject: Re: On avoiding Gothic Chess licensing problems

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 17:35:24 06/18/04

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>
>Do people really want to pay you money so they can spend a lot of their time
>developing a program to promote your idea and make you rich?
>
>It sounds like a bit of a bad joke to me, I'd certainly ask for a solid pay
>check from you before making the first keypress!
>
>I actually do some work for an inventor currently, nice guy, but _he_ is of
>course paying _me_ for helping _him_ become rich.
>

The point is, you don't have to do anything.

Nobody was forced to buy Microsoft stock at $3.50 a share in 1978.

Only the first 100 licenses or so are going to be practically given away at the
lower rates for the 15-year tenure.

After that...you all can kick yourselves all you want.



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