Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:40:30 12/13/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 21:48:43, Martin Grabriel wrote:
>I believe Rebel Tiger will be very well received. I am just very curious on the
>rewards to programmer. You see, my son is a free lance software programmer and I
>want to encourage him to write a commercial chess program (he plays chess rather
>well but have no time for it). If he spends a year on such a project and managed
>to come out with something like Tiger (hypothetical), will he make enough to
>sustain himself comfortably? If you don't mind me asking, how many copies must
>Rebel Tiger be sold before it pays off for one year of your effort?
I cannot give you all the information that you are asking for, but what I can
tell you is that it is *very* hard to make money with a chess program.
So I would not advice you to plan to get any money from it.
Christophe
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