Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:16:23 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 12:58:40, Frank Quisinsky 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 >>2)The program is at similiar level to Ruffian >>3)The program is at similiar level to Fritz8 >>4)The program is 100 elo better than Fritz8 >> >>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. >>Suppose that the programmer expects to sell 120 copies per year. >> >>What should be the price of the program? >> >>Is the price significantly higher relative to the case that he expects to sell >>1200 or 12000 copies per year? >> >>Uri > >Hi, > >the price make the programmer. >And if we have an engine with 2000 ELO for 49 US Dollar is this OK for me. > >But the most amateur chess programmers have fun on this hobby and don't think >about money. There is no contradiction between fun and money. The fact that you have fun does not mean that you need to have objection to making money. I don't believe that in 2-4 years any programmer can by hundrets of >engines if 10 or more engines with the playing level from Ruffian are free for >everyone available. > >The last group of programmers try in this time to for sell his programs. Why not >but the future on the commercial market are not chess engines. In my opinion are >GUIs with a lot of interesting engine options GUI is not something that interests me so I do not care about the question how much money it is possible to earn by designing a better interface. Uri
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