Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:08:01 04/30/04
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On April 30, 2004 at 10:58:51, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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). >> >>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. > >When you win umpteen world championships, maybe you can charge what SMK does and >get the same number of sales. Until then, 20 euros less doesn't sound that >unreasonable. > >Dave Chessbase sells deepfritz for 99 euro. What is your comment on that?
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