Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:37:31 08/04/01
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On August 04, 2001 at 01:21:31, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On August 03, 2001 at 17:28:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 03, 2001 at 16:48:47, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>Does the existence of such strong free programs eat into profits? Might it >>>signal the beginning of the end for commercial programs? (I hasten to say, I >>>keep buying 'em, especially now that they no longer cost USD$100+ apiece.) >> >>How many versions did they sell then, and who for **** sake can get >>a winboard version to work except a few freaks who are like 0.001% of >>the people big companies like chessmaster and CB sell to? >> >>Best regards, >>Vincent > >Hi Vincent, > >example: >SOS 11/99 downloads from my webpage: >1.145 !! even a free downloadable engine uploads only 1145 times? >Firms must be happy if this = 0.001% :-) Question is: how many did PAY you for this thing and from those who paid who got it to work? 0% ? >1.145 = 0.001% Christophe Thereon can make holiday the long year in Guadeloupe >on the strand :-)) No he won't, uploads are for free and all kind of serviceproviders already download it from you. those 1145 probably around half that are ISPs downloading. >Furthermore, where you can find more results/webpages? >WinBoard or any other commercial GUIs/Engines? I never saw winboard engines in the supermarket so i doubt all that. >Why you can play now with 90% of all commercial GUIs with WinBoard engines? It's an extra in interfaces to load some amateur engines with, but at the same time it means those amateur engines won't come much further, because for the same reason they cannot come further. >Thinking about this befor you write here, maybe a little bit better, better for >other people which must read your "in German ... Quatsch" ! You're not being realistic. How many winboard versions did you sell from Patzer/Lambchop etc? 100, 500? You can't live from 500 versions sold. 1145 free downloads are statistically seen shit. My freeware DIEP program has been put onto around 10 million CDroms. No i didn't receive a penny for that. Only sometimes a neighbour is coming to me and say: "he here is diep version 1.40!!!!" >Best >Frank
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