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Subject: Re: Chess, Linux and screenshots

Author: Martin Andersen

Date: 14:47:48 11/24/03

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On November 24, 2003 at 17:27:10, Jim Bodkins wrote:


>I installed Jose, imported a rather large DB and 'broke' it. Couldnt get any
>responses from the author so it was removed. This is common with open source.
>Good as far as it goes. Some goes farther than others. Commercial is much
>better. What do you save? What is the tradeoff? ~$100 for headaches. I'll pay.
>Jose did look nice, but doesnt work in my experience.

Yes, I agree that jose has some bugs, I'm planning to file some bug
reports also. If you are looking for at database program, Scid is very
good and free. I will use jose mainly for playing against an engine and
analysing games.
I'm not a fanatic as to demand all programs to be open-source. But
in this case I don't know of any commercial programs for Linux that
offer a nice GUI for an engine.

I don't want to go into a discussion about open-source and closed software, but
just say that I disagree that commercial software is generally better.

Martin.



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