Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:57:58 06/17/98
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On June 17, 1998 at 15:36:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 17, 1998 at 10:52:43, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi Bob: >>If the announcement in Gambitsoft is true,then you became commmercial, right? If >>so, are you thinking in delivering as commercial your program with all the stuff >>pertaining to it in a CD or something? Yes, I have asked this before but now >>with is new fact at sight I wonder if things could go faster.. >>Fernando > > >no. I simply gave them permission to include Crafty along with chessbase >version 7. I don't get any royalties, nor do I work for them. No changes >in Crafty, which will remain "freeware" for the future that I see. > >A CD will happen eventually, to simplify the installation. I'm now >rewriting the book code to reduce the space requirements for building, >and then to allow a "portable" form of the pre-digested book (as in wall.pgn) >to make the book building process go almost instantly... Bob: Of course is your business, but it seems weird to me that you just give them Crafty as freeware as much they are going to use not for fun but to increase the value of his product for commercial reasons. They are going to earn money from it at least as part of the benefices they will show CB7 have. Maybe you are carrying your generous attitude too far? OK, is up to you, but I wondered... fernando
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