Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 23:27:00 01/21/04
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On January 21, 2004 at 06:25:27, José Carlos wrote: >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. Hi Jose, sorry, but I have a completly other opinion and cann't following your words. Best Frank
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