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Subject: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free?

Author: syed

Date: 08:48:30 10/04/98

Why are some commercial quality programs like Crafty downloadable for free when
the author could make some good money selling it for $40-$50? Chessmaster has
crossed 4 million copies in sales, which at $50 a copy is $20mil. in sales!!
Seems like there are some good financial opporunities for chess programmers.

Also, why is the source code for crafty downloadable for free too? Doesn't this
give the opportunity to someone to modify the code a wee bit then market the
software as his own?

syed

Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Jari Huikari 10:24:40 10/04/98
Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Mosjeree 09:41:54 10/04/98
- Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? John Coffey 11:02:48 10/04/98
Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Robert Hyatt 09:32:21 10/04/98
- Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Bernie Chan 12:25:40 10/04/98
  - Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Torstein Hall 12:56:35 10/04/98
    - Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Bernie Chan 15:48:41 10/04/98
      - Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? blass uri 15:57:03 10/04/98
        
        Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Komputer Korner 08:23:03 10/05/98
Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? Danniel Corbit 09:07:05 10/04/98
Re: To Robert Hyatt and Co. - Why for free? blass uri 09:00:57 10/04/98

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