Author: David Dahlem
Date: 12:51:30 02/14/06
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On February 14, 2006 at 11:59:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Here's the main thing we need. Technical support is fine. Discussions about >games is fine. But when the discussions boil over into marketing, or marketing >decisions, or advertising decisions, or financial decisions, those belong >somewhere _else_. > >This is the wrong place to poll people with "would you prefer to buy a >subscription and get several versions spread over time or would you prefer to >buy one 'final product' and then wait for the next release and buy it all over >again?" and the like... That's absolutely blatantly commercial, and belongs >elsewhere. Discussions about games, or about program details (I can't think of >a commercial programmer that gives any "program details" but that's another >topic) and such do belong here. But there has to be a line drawn, and when >crossing the line from technical discussion to commercial exhortation, something >has to happen. > >That's my take on this entire fiasco. If you want to discuss why Rybka (or any >program) plays move XXX in this position, go ahead. If you want to discuss why >Rybka has this evaluation for this position while program YYY has a different >evaluation, go ahead there too. If you want to ask how to set the 50 move rule >counter in Rybka, again, that's ok. But not how to market the thing, or >continuous threads by the beta testers comparing version X to version X+1. Take >those offline to a specific Rybka site as I have done with Crafty information, >and as others have done with their engines. Technically version X to version X+1 are not beta versions, since they have to be purchased. They're just called beta by the author until the "final" release version 1.2. So i'm wondering if there is anything wrong with legal paying owners of these "beta" versions posting results of their testing? :-) Regards Dave
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