Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:24:42 06/26/03
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On June 26, 2003 at 12:16:29, Bernardo Wesler wrote: >Do you really consider that the price to sell engine+gui is fair? >How can you tell that? Do you have their costs structure/breakdown? I guess >their marketing but mainly their security matters are too expensive and >avoidable if they sold the dowbloadable engines for 5 or 10 dls; they could not >only even sell more frequent updates and patches for 5 dls each, but also >selling the beta versions they could get greater statistical critical masses. >Why do you suppose they dont earn enough money? Ask them if they work for these >projects on full time basis, how they live, what theis life standards are , and >who their sponsors are, so u would have the whole "picture' ..... I know that Amir Ban has a full time job not in chess programming. I believe that a lot of chess programmers do not work on their program on full time basis because they cannot earn enough money. Uri
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