Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 07:49:26 11/03/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 01:53:37, margolies,marc wrote: >i don't understand the direction of this recommendation. >Why should any publisher or distributor take money and effort out of his product >and profit to promote a competitor's product because you ask him to. >Are his responisbilities to his users, employees, stockholders? Not to his >competitors. Nothing of what I suggested promoted a competitor's product. >If inter-operability is the design, then ALL must agree,yes? One veto, any veto >damns such a plan. Why should the leader save number two or number five or >number eight in a tough market when he does not own a share of them? Chessbase's >ace-in-the-hole when offering a distribution deal to an outside programmer is >interoperability and piggy back marketing. If outsiders could get that for >nothing, wouldn't programmers defect? >Please come up with a plan that serves the interest of those you wish to direct >and in which you share part of its cost. Some current chess software is fully interoperable, and some isn't. This is partly a technical issue, but I think it's more of a business decision. Ultimately, companies have to satisfy their customers, or customers will purchase software from their competitors. This is why I suggested that users who care let the companies they buy products from know that they care. I'm not sure if you recall the formation of the PGN standard here many years ago, organized by SJE. If you do, perhaps you also recall the public lambasting that was received by commercial software developers whose new products did not support it. PGN support is ubiquitous today because users demanded it! Your last sentence doesn't make sense to me -- I don't wish to "direct" anybody. It's up to people to decide for themselves what is important to them. If they don't care about it, fine, they can continue to accept poor interoperability and its consequences. Dave
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