Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:17:26 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 10:17:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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). 20 million cdroms? I am surprised to hear it. Based on my memory even chessmaster does not get this number. You are very optimistic if you think to sell even 1 million cdroms. Uri
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