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Subject: Re: Pro - amateur -> commercial - free!

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 02:46:03 01/19/04

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On January 19, 2004 at 05:21:43, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Sorry if this is old topic, but anyway.
>
>I think we should get off from this "professional" program definition. There are
>too much programs considered as professional, but they are not: Junior, Hiarcs,
>Ruffian and Deep Sjeng for example. Better is to divide programs to free and
>commercial - there is no problem to decide: it You must pay it's commercial.
>
>Jouni

Maybe it's just me, but for me the definition of 'professional' is crystal
clear: professional = commercial = making money as a company (ie not
shareware/donationware)

I guess some people have problems because they somehow value 'professional'
higher than 'amateur'. Being in software development for several years I saw
quite a lot of people where programming is part of their profession, but I
wouldn't want them to code a single line for me. ;)

Sargon



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