Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 03:01:25 04/18/00
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On April 18, 2000 at 01:39:23, Roger D Davis wrote: >Perhaps someone should write an automatic install for Winboard and the latest >versions of all known engines and their opening books, and offer it for sale on >the net, with a large portion of the profits, if any, going to Tim Mann and the >engine authors. > >This could really boost Winboard Chess up another notch, would provide incentive >for aspiring authors, and would benefit all of us. > >Roger And how much would one sell this for. I do not think the demand would be high, and when you worked out the percentage the person making and distributing this would make, and then worl out the shares for the rest, it would come to very little profit. Maybe Since Crafty is strong and most people use that, you would get a situation where one programmer wants more, cause people would buy it to use say crafty more. or Many Tim Mann would want the lions share of the profits, but then the chess programmers would say, well without our programs your program would be nothing. All this potential hassle when you can goto many sites and download then all at the same site anyway. Freeware then turns into shareware of a sort. Enterprising idea though, sure someone will probably try it
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