Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:51:22 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 10:24:46, Chris Carson wrote: >On April 07, 2003 at 09:56:54, Uri Blass wrote: > >>Suppose that a programmer of a good program decides to sell his(her) engine only >>as a winboard engine(it can run under Fritz in these conditions) >> >>I am interested in your estimate for the following questions >> >>How much money (s)he can get from it in the following cases: >> >>1)The program is at similiar level to Crafty > Nothing > > >>2)The program is at similiar level to Ruffian > $10.00 > > >>3)The program is at similiar level to Fritz > $30.00 > > >>4)The program is 100 elo better than Fritz8 > $50.00 No I do not believe that the programmer can earn only 50$ if the program is 100 elo better than Fritz8. Maybe you mean 50$ per copy but I asked about the total profit. > > >> >>I thought that the programmers of the top amateur(crafty level that are not >>clones of other programs) are probably rich people thanks to the fact that they >>are good programmers so they do not care if they can make more 100$ per month >>from their program but it seems that I was wrong based on the following post >>when the author of smarthink claims that he earns only 100$ per month: >> >>http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/46347.htm >> >>Another possibility is that I am wrong in my guess that he can make money by >>selling his program. >> >>More questions: >> >>suppose for the discussion that a programmer decides to earn 10$ per copy that >>(s)he sells. > $15.00 Why do you change the question? > > > >>Suppose that the programmer expects to sell 120 copies per year. >> >>What should be the price of the program? > Do something else, 120 copies is not enough and the price would be to high. You do not answer the question and I do not understand why the price needs to be very high. > > >> >>Is the price significantly higher relative to the case that he expects to sell >>1200 or 12000 copies per year? > > Yes, a factor to 10 to 100 times higher. I would think 12000 might not be >enough copies to get the needed price break over investiment/work needed. At >$10/copie this is not enouth money, maybe at $100/copy 12000 might be >interesting, Your numbers suggests that only a gain of 12000*100=1200000$ is enough. It means that you believe that the investment is of order of 1 miliion $'s How do you get this investment? Uri
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