Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:30:08 05/20/02
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On May 20, 2002 at 12:44:53, Martin Andersen wrote: >On May 20, 2002 at 04:52:00, Uri Blass wrote: > > >> >>I guess that Lambchop comes back as freeware because it is not strong enough and >>is slightly weaker than Crafty based on peter's opinion. >> >>About yace I do not know the reason that Dieter did not choose to do it >>commercial. >> >>I hope that at least he is not going to give for free a version that is clearly >>better than the latest yace. > >Why not ? I don't mind having a strong program for free. >It's up to the author. Nobody can tell him to charge for >the program. >It could affect the sale of the commercial programs, but >competition is healthy. Actually, if strength and price alone decided >which program normal people would use, then 99% would >choose Crafty or Yace for example. These 99% would get >their asses kicked by these programs. You assume that the buyers use programs to play against them. It is a mistake and there are buyers who use programs for other purposes(for example to play engine-engine games). Uri
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