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Subject: Re: Is it time for YACE and Ruffian to become commercial ?

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 13:04:07 02/24/03

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Hi Dann,

>The commercial
>systems also have much better documentation and much better support.

The reason is easy!
More person works here.

It's not easy to make all for free, spent time and make it perfect.
It's possible (not the problem) but for a compact product a programmer need a
some help. A programmer allone can not all do (for a GUI not possible).

And ...
We have not many GUIs with a ten years development (compare ChessBase GUIs).
With time a product are better and better!

I believe much freeware is better as the best commercial products.

Example:
The most things in Arena are better as in commercial products!

- autoplayer support
- dgt support
- engine support

and many other things ...

Best
Frank



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