Author: Hannu Wegner
Date: 12:58:51 05/30/01
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Hi Fernando! On May 29, 2001 at 22:09:20, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Do you want to have ferret? Yes!!! >Well, make an offer enough high to tempt even Jesus. After all this is, at last, >a matter of money. Every reason Bruce could give is valid inside a frame of >money. Say, if you would offer him 1 million dollars I bet he would sell it to >you no matter what. 100 hundred thousand would do the trick, also. It is not >clear if 10 thousand are enough; there we go into a shadowy area. Clearly one >thousand are not. >As much as he knows nobody will offer even those paltry 1 thousand, he stay >adamant waiting, perhaps, a better ocasion. If not a particular guy will do it, >a mass of purchaser could do it, but then you need something very big to show, a >great won tournamet, the defeat of Kasparov, anything ANd in a mass market, not >for the geek tribe here, that anyway is not conspicuous for having lot of money. >If not, he knows he would follow the sad luck of so many a programmer reduced to >receive a handful of cents for his genius and work of many years. >So, put your wallet where your mouth is or put your mouth in the closed box >where the wallet is.... :-))!! OK, I ask my wife fore some more pocketmoney! But to be serios: I just wanted to point out, that I ore perhaps some others (as you) would like to join Ferret. I don't think that there is a real chance to become rich with a chessprogram anymore. There are to many good other programs. The market ist just not big enough. So in my opinion it can't be the reason for hiding Ferret, that Bruce wait for a "the big deal". So Bruce maybe just doesn't have a commercial interrest. Best greetings, Hannu Wegner >Fernando >Yeah, I, also, would like ferret in my hands.
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