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Subject: Re: How many chess programmers earn their living from it, and how?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:55:00 02/11/03

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On February 11, 2003 at 21:13:16, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 11, 2003 at 14:39:48, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I think that there are more programmers who sell their program
>>
>>The programmers of gandlaf,Diep and the programmers of some engines in the young
>>talents of chessbase also earned some money from their program and I do not care
>>if it is 100$ for all their life or more than it.
>>
>>There are probably more programmers who sold at least one copy of their program.
>>
>>Uri
>
>But the original poster wanted to know how many programmers earn their living
>from their program, not how many people have sold at least one copy of thier
>program. Certainly there are more who make money from their program, but there
>are not many more who live solely from that money and do not have another job.

I am not sure what the original poster meant
maybe he meant to both questions

see the following note of the orignal post

"Note: By that I mean programmers/developers being paid for developing chess
engines. Or possibly any programmer selling his own software by himself."




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