Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:17:05 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 02:35:18, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 28, 2004 at 17:51:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On April 28, 2004 at 17:46:45, Jonas Bylund wrote: >> >>>> This would cost you many customers. Many people want the Chess engines for >>>>playing tournaments inside Chessbase GUI and they are very lazy to play by hand >>>>in a non-automatic way, the moves. So you can create a Diep that will play it's >>>>own interface and a Diep-winboard compatible. Like Chessmaster 8000/9000. >>> >>>Yes i agree, i for one would only buy Diep if it was possible to load in >>>different GUI's. A standalone Diep GUI + winboard engine, (of the same Diep >>>version of course) and i would be more than happy cough up the money. >> >>I do not want you as a user. > >How many people do you need to tell you the same thing in order to change your >mind about it? Oh if just about 0.01% of the total potential market want something i'll do it. DIEP (dos) has been at about 20 million cdroms (sold as win95 software), but i didn't earn a penny at that of course (it was freeware, the fact that it begged for getting registered no one cared about). I always knew it when a new shop released a shareware cdrom with at it diep, because within a week i would get 1000 emails from new users then begging for a newer version for free or asking whether it would run on their old 386 too (some even phone at 11 PM sunday, *never* put your telephone number in a textfile, dumb beginners mistake mine). Real bad was when a certain distributor released it. Even 2 neighbours of me came to me tell me they had seen a program at the cdrom called DIEP. Imagine one of them is a cop. Knows as much from software like i know from Chinese. So 0.01% from that is 0.0001 * 20 000 000 = 2000 users. I saw 10 people post here. 20 of them were not serious to buy diep, and 2 of them offered 20 euro too little to even buy shredder8. >Uri
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