Author: José Carlos
Date: 03:25:27 01/21/04
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On January 21, 2004 at 05:12:19, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On January 21, 2004 at 04:27:20, José Carlos wrote: > >Hi Jose, > >> You forgot you get money for Ruffian? >> Read again, Frank. I'll quote for you: > >Interesting for me is more: >Plough back profits for new developments of computer chess. > >Believe me, I live not from computer chess and will not live from it. >I am happy that I have an interesting professional job! > >Ruffian is a great project for our Arena team, absolutly !! >The reason is easy ... > >01. Ruffian is a partner program of Arena! > >02. More people install Arena and have fun with the Freeware GUI Arena! > >03. More people give us material for develops Arena! >A little team must search the best way and I am sure we have found a good way! > >04. We have a strong engine for make a better Arena publicity (Ruffian). > >05. Much persons have only interest on the strongest programs and install Arena >with Ruffian ... find the way to Arena Chess GUI ... in German we say >(Kausalkette). > >You know that my heart beats for freeware developments since many years and I >know too that professional engines are important for the market. Interesting is >to make a little bit for all groups of persons and the way we go have more >success. To see only the own things is wrong! To see what other make is >interesting too and for me private more interesting :-) > >With other words: >Per-Ola powered with his great engine Ruffian the developments of Arena. Rudolf >Huber make this, the partner programmers make this and the webpage is very very >popular. Is the webpage popular are the partner programs popular, are the >freeware engines popular (all links are on Arena webpages) and amateur computer >chess have more success. It's the same way compare to the success to Frank's >Chess Page. I wrote and helps Gambit-Soft, ChessBase make a test for Chessmaster >GUI, Chess-Assistant GUI wrote reviews for a lot of products but main topic is >amateur chess. More and more people have interest and more and more people like >the webpage ... and it was one of the biggest chess webpages with 20.000 hits >daily or on all 250 different HTML pages with 2000 different users per day ... a >work by a big group of persons which help me. I start my publicity for WinBoard >in a time where three WB engines are available. I believe GnuChess, Crafty, The >Crazy Bishop. Since this time I playing tournaments with WB Engines and try what >I can make to make the idea more public. > >Now I make the same for Arena Chess GUI and from month to month the GUI is more >popular. More and more persons helps with bug messages, new ideas and so on. > >Furthermore, we have some interesting engines and Ruffian, Gandalf or other >things which I make publicity for it on my popular webpages is not important for >me alone. It's "only" an important part of my complete interest. > >At the moment I play an interesting tournaments with TheBaron, Comet, TCBishop, >Cerebro, Matador and Terra and I have a lot of fun. You can see, Ruffian, >Shredder, Hiarcs or others are not alone important for myself. > >Maybe this have not to do with professional work but I am happy that I have this >interest and have not alone professional interest. I am sure I have no fun with >professional interest too because I don't like the way which some commercial >firms go. > >For me is important: >Users must be have fun with my work and then I am happy ... > >And in this case :-)) >Deep Sjeng is playing an interesting Arena 006 tournament and I like this engine >too. Information about Ruffian ... you can find enough in my forum, here on the >CD and in other fora. > >Best >Frank > > > >>>>it is better than previous available version is not a professional behaviour. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Do you think that being professional is only about getting money. You're >>wrong. Being professional is about being resposible and behave with ethics. >>Freeware authors can release crap and more crap if they want. That's not an >>excuse for you, as you ask for money. Get the difference? >> >> José C. >> >> >>>Best >>>Frank I don't have anything bad to comment on what you say here. But you change topic suddenly. The former topic: responsability of a professional regarding versions release. You made a comparison with freeware engines. That comparision was wrong and I showed why. BTW, I deeply admire Per-ola as much as other high quality software developers. But if you sell, you have dues apart from software development. Don't forget them. José C.
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