Author: Gerrit Reubold
Date: 12:02:51 04/12/01
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On April 10, 2001 at 18:24:54, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Dear Gerry: >It always has amazed me how much you have worked to offer for free so a good >product gifted with a fairly strong engine AND with so a good gui. It is, in >fact, better that that of some commercial programs. Really I believe you could, >without hesitation and compunction, ask from us some money. You deserve it. And >thanks a lot. I will play at once a game to taste the new flavour... >Fernando Hi Fernando, thanks for your nice words. I hope you will enjoy playing against Bringer, however its style is more "traditional", not a Gambit Bringer yet :-) Refering to your idea: asking money for Bringer: I think this won't work. There are IMO only two possibilities. I could allow free download of Bringer and ask for some voluntary money, if the user does like it; the shareware idea. I guess that very few users would consider paying for programs that they can use for free. Maybe I am too pessimistic, but I think it won't work. The other possibility would be to sell Bringer CDs, I would have to worry about production, advertising, shipping, invoicing, copy protection, etc. Since Bringer can't compete with the commercial products, the price would have to be way lower, the effort would be to high to justify the profit. Anyway, if it were "only" about making money: the best thing to do would be quitting chess programming and do something in real life :-) But, fortunately, chess programming is fun, i will keep it. Greetings, Gerrit (not Gerry)
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