Author: blass uri
Date: 09:00:57 10/04/98
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On October 04, 1998 at 11:48:30, syed wrote: >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 $20mil. in sales!! The price of chessmaste in USA is only 19.95$ The programmers do not earn 40-50$ for a copy >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? because Bob wants to improve his program and the fact that it is free help him to get ideas about it It is not so simple to modify the source code of crafty to improve it significantly because you have to understand it and crafty is a long program that Bob worked many years to develop it Uri > >syed
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