Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:36:23 06/30/98
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Hi Mark: My logic, that it seem you don't see, is very simple: is based in the fact tah chess programming market is different altoguether to any other market, where your logic obviously would be correct. Chess programming is not a case of automobile or computers hardware. The programmers that you say are the focus of my reasonnig are not just a sample of a great number of commercial -commercial- chess programmers, not just the guys I love and care as you out it, but are almost all the producer market in itself. Ed, Amir and the rest could say, as Louis XIV, "the market is me" or at most, "the market is us". Certainly always there will be people coming with a new poduct, I am not forecasting a final and definitive closing of the entire industry; I am no preaching armagedon. I am just saying that as much the producer side of the market is almost enterily in the hands of the known names, then if they get problems due top a lack of consummer, automatically all de industy that is coinidental with them is in problems. Else: Am I proposing a corporative defense of the stablished names? No. I am saying that a crisis is at hand due to the peculiarities of this market. I am not saying that if Ed goes in bankrupcy chess programmmins will disappear from the Earth. Let me say it another way: I am saying that chess programming could follow the same path that has been followed by computer industry in general, where diversity is little by little being vanished due to the intrincacies of the market. How many OS better than windows has been trashed due to the predominance of the big names? Has it been good for consummers? In our case, the intrincacy consist that too few consummer must face too much producers. I hope you will share with me that I am right in that. And if that extreme competition is going to be good for all, not only consummer as you say, well, all finnaly depends of the values and preferences from which you evaluate. Maybe is better two or thee companies hiring a lot of programmers that a lot of programmers trying to get money with his own companies. I just wanted to sign the fact of an oncoming crisis and with it a sure change of the entire structure of all we know. Regards fernando
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