Author: Mark Young
Date: 23:33:49 06/28/98
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On June 28, 1998 at 17:19:27, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >I am sure nobody of you guys is going to argue against my new "preliminary" >conclusion: probably I was in state on deep drukness when I wrote about my >preliminaty conclusions. Yes, it seems I forgot some simple maths to begin with. >But even so, on the wrong ground and with thewrong reasosn I still have the >feeling this industry is facing very hard times. Too much products, too little >the market. I would love to know -but I doubt they are goig to tell us nothing, >of course- what programmers thinks of this, whcih has been his results, hgow >good or bad the business they begun, how much they sold, etc. Sure, we'll never >know. >Fernando I don’t know why you look on this as a bad thing, if your conclusions are right. If there are too many products out, that’s because someone thinks they can make money in the current market place. This also has the effect of keeping prices low and the quality high. I can buy today a much better program then I could 5 years ago at the same or cheaper price. If this is the sad state of affaires the chess programming market place is in. I will take it.
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