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Subject: Re: Exiciting Aristarch

Author: Carlos Pesce

Date: 11:18:58 08/08/02

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On August 07, 2002 at 18:33:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 07, 2002 at 16:48:38, Carlos Pesce wrote:
>
>>Ive never replayed Uri Blass posts but..its enough.
>>Its a lie that the programmer that give to US his engine for free is because he
>>know that its weak..please, Mr. Blass, speak for yourself, not for all the
>>programmers.
>
>I did not speak for all the programmers.
Right. You say only "programmer that give your engine for free, its because he
know that it is not strong"..worse, speak in your name..the objetive of much
programmers are not "the comerce", that in your mind is the unique impulse for
to be creative.
>
> The GNU project, Linux (that its much better OS that MS), show to
>>us that theres a "philosophie" besides them: the knowledge must be for all the
>>human race. For you all is money, all can be selled, all can be bought.
>
>I did not say it.
Your words have a "between lines" thoughts...sorry, but im not so fool..i know,
i know, you will say: "i did not say it", etc.
>I do not think that people are going to pay for movei today.
>
>I did not say that all is money.
You are a "commercial interest defender", you always defend companies interests
and ALWAYS underestimate amateur engines ("not strong for to be a commercial
program" and so on), are commercial programs the nirvana?
>If programmers do not want to make money by their program they can sell it and
>give the money to poor people.
Logical..the capitalist soul: first sell and next..charity.
>
>I think that poor people need the money more than users of chess programs and
>users of chess programs can pay for them so I do not see the loss of knowledge
>for the human race(espacially when the source code is not free).
Users of a chess program are a new sotial class..are not poor
people..interesting thory
>
>
>>Yace its no so weak (i think that is a bit better than Movei, for example)
>
>I never said that yace is weak.
Sorry, Mr. Blass..you dont say anything..i must remember this.
>I talked about most of the programmers and I talked about new programs and not
>on the existing strong programs.
>
>, and
>>i know that that Dieter have received much "oferts" for to make Yace a
>>commerciall engine but he have said: "Yace will be free for ever"..and believe
>>me: Dieter its not a rich man but he has sound principles, he dont believe that
>>the advances of the knowledge were cause to the money and computer chess its not
>>a simple game.
>>You have the right to defend ChessBase or the others companies(as always you do)
>>and i can say that ChessBase NEVER give to me (or to us) ANYTHING (and without
>>to remember the F7 bugs, never fixed), but you dont have the right to speak in
>>the name of the others programmers..nor to say lies about his intentions.
>>Carlos Pesce
>
>I did not say lies about other.
>I talked about most of the programmers.
Most of the programmers? are you sure? Do you have some data? Maybe a poll?
>
>Most of the free chess programs are not strong enough to be commercial.
The nirvana...
>There are more than a hundred of free programs.
>
>Do you think that more than 50 programmers could sell their program?
Mmmm...you will forget the sleep intending to reply that important question
Enough for me.
>
>Uri



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