Author: pavel
Date: 04:45:27 10/22/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 07:31:23, Jouni Uski wrote: >It's now quite clear, that Ruffian is at least 50 points may be 100 points >stronger >than other freeware engines. Any quesses how long will that situation last? >1,2 or 5 years may be? My quess 2 years. At least Ruffi is good reference now - >no sense to go commercial, if You aren't better than it! > >Jouni > >PS. Just noticed, that Ruffi scores 300/300 in WAC with quite short time limit - >not bad It is interesting. My first impression was that Ruffian will never be commercial, because there are some people who likes to give out stuffs free (ie, linux and other freewares). But the recent comp-human matches suggests that there are "a lot of money", if you can be very successfull. And being success in a short time doesn't seem to be a problem for ruffian, the programmer does seem to have the talent and the desire to make ruffian even better. If all goes well for ruffian I expect it to come under the blessing of "Rebel" company, just like Gandalf. Ofcourse, these are just assumptions. cheers, pavs ;)
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