Author: pavel
Date: 16:17:02 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 18:11:59, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 07, 2003 at 17:13:15, Sergei S. Markoff wrote: > >>>Maybe he is demonstrating his programming skill and hopes to get a job in the >>>West for a higher salary? >> >>No. When I participated world finals of the ACM programming contest at 2002 I >>has a lot of possibilities to get a job with very high salary. >> >>Thare are a lot of things which is more important for me than salary. >>Sorry. > >I have also similiar opinion and I guess that most people will not do everything >for better salary and most people will refuse to sell their body for better >salary(independent of the salary). > >It may be important not to do something boring for money(it is important for me) >but I guess that it is not the reason that you refuse as a principle to do your >program commercial. > >If you do not like to deal with customers then you can say that you will sell >the program only after you find someone that will deal with that problem so I >guess that if you do not want as a principle to sell your program there is >another reason. > >Uri Also, another reason for not wanting to go commercial would be that; when you go commercial, and let's assume that you have someone like chessbase to take care of your problems dealing with customers, you will indirectly have a sense of responsibility to make your program even better and perhaps have pressure to work on it harder than ussual when it was just a hobby. I suppose most people doesn't want to go commercial, because the return is not good. However, there seems to be some exceptions. Cheers, pavs
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