Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 17:26:51 01/08/03
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On January 08, 2003 at 18:42:14, John Merlino wrote: >On January 08, 2003 at 05:24:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>On January 07, 2003 at 18:08:50, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>How many people do you think would be using TheKing without paying for a copy of >>>Chessmaster if there was no copy protection on the engine? One of the main >>>reasons people buy Chessmaster is for the latest version of this great engine. >>>If there was no copy protection on it, Johan would probably not get half of the >>>money that he is making now from his brilliant and hard work. >>> >>>jm >> >>Hi Jim, >> >>I have an other opinion and know marketing results from other firms (not chess >>products with much bigger "sales figures" compare Chessmaster -think so-). >> >>Sorry John, but your opinion is for me not to understand. >> >>For a mass market product not to understand ... >>A CD copy protection is enough, I mean if I must put the CD in my CDRom drive, >>copy protection only on CDRom. But a OPK number for a mass market product ... >>John please ... what do you make here? >> >>Best >>Frank > >The reason is that there are two different programs that BOTH need protection. >The Chessmaster GUI is one of them, and Johan's engine is the other. Johan's >engine would not need to be protected if it was not Winboard-compatible. In >other words, if it was not protected it could be used without owning the >Chessmaster software. > >And, since it is so easily distributable, there would be tens of thousands of >people (perhaps hundreds of thousands) using The King engine without paying for >it (by buying Chessmaster). > >The other point to remember is that The King engine was never intended to be >used outside the CM GUI. If Odd Gunnar Malin had not discovered the OPK number, >nobody would be complaining at all. The reason that The King is >Winboard-compatible is NOT so that it can be used outside the CM GUI, but >because the CM GUI is Winboard-compatible. The point was for users to be able to >use OTHER winboard engines inside the CM GUI -- not to use The King in OTHER >GUIs. > >But the MAIN point, as I said before, is to protect Johan's program, which is >certainly his right. > >jm Just have the engine require the CD - why this OPK number? I think that is what Frank (and I ) don't understand. Mike
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