Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 12:40:28 07/01/03
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On July 01, 2003 at 14:55:27, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On July 01, 2003 at 14:21:32, Andrei Fortuna wrote: > >>On July 01, 2003 at 13:55:42, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >> >>>I use Webreaper. It's a freeware... >> >>Can you use it to : >> - search messages for which the subject include certain words but doesn't >>contain others ? >> - search messages posted by a certain person (i.e. not that name inside the >>message but inside message header) ? >> - view messages threaded ? >> - view expanded diagrams inside messages ? (this could work if you make a >>mirror of talkchess.com but then I am not so sure you would have older messages) >> >>Just a few questions from the top of my head, there certainly are more similar >>ones. >> >>I think a web mirroring software is not the answer for extracting the bits of >>knowledge from CCC, because among other thing you need also to keep track of >>message hierarchy (threads) to have some useful results. >> >>But maybe I am wrong. >> >>That's the whole purpose of my little poll : to find out what people think about >>the idea of having an offline browser for CCC. >> >>Cheers, >>Andrei > >If you plan to charge for the off-line reading software, then I plan to charge >you for the use of posts that contain text written by me, whether directly or >quoted, or alternatively, to prohibit their inclusion. > >I don't have a problem with someone making some money, but I'm not enamoured >with this particular way of doing it. I don't distribute or sell your messages. What I sell is the program I wrote from scratch and I charge for the time & efforts I put into writing this program. I have invested in the past weeks into writing free software and have received very few thanks for it, which in its turn didn't encourage me to develop that software. If I charge for it then first the quality of the product will increase (because I have to make it commercial quality and release updates if problems arises, it is my responsability in front of my customers), also I know I am not working in vain and at least I am getting something for releasing my programs to the world. I apologize if you feel offended or exploited by this, it is not my intent. And speaking of profits : at $22.95 I get $20.00 in the end because $2.95 goes to share-it (the company that will process the product orders and handles the credit card transactions). How many customers do you think I could get ? I estimate that 25 in the best case, I have no reason to think more. My total profit : $500 for 3-4 weeks of work writing the tool and the obligation to support it (answer questions, launch updates if problems are found, etc) in the next months. And $500 is in the best case in which I find 25 customers which I kind of doubt. Do you think this to be so much profit ???? Andrei
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