Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 02:37:17 08/29/01
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> >1. Amateur: > You cannot be an amateur if you earn money by the selling of your program, > (that would be a commercial interest), so the amateurs cannot be receiving > money from the game-company... How about programmers who had once (say 2 years ago) obtained an amount of money for publishing their program (i guess young talents fall into this). Do they have to be non-Amateurs for the rest of their lives ? I'm sorry, but I think it's not possible to make a clear and fair classification. IMHO, one should omit this nonsense completely. Regards, Uli >2. Semi-professional: > Are you an associate of a games-programming company if you let them > sell your program and receive some money for it? > Unclear. > Have the named programs become "commercial products" by advertising > and selling them in the same way as the game-company's flagship-products? > Yes, I think so! > So the named programs cannot be semi-professionals. >3. Professional: > Apparently the question if the programmers are heavily income-dependent > on their game progams is NOT relevant to the organisers. Strange... > >I feel the definitions need mending. My internet connection is about >to break due to idle(eh?) time, so I cannot give my proposed exact >definitions yet. Maybe later. > >Theo van der Storm
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