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Subject: Re: Chess for Fun, Chess for Money

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:22:09 07/06/04

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On July 06, 2004 at 18:19:28, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On July 06, 2004 at 18:10:01, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Bob:
>>It is not my business to commend you this or that line of life, you are as old
>>as me, but according to my experience some money, even if not too much, is very
>>good to alleviate bad moments experienced when you work for commercial reasons.
>>Anyway, 36 years for free give you a good reason to begin the next 36 for the
>>cash.
>>Why not?
>>I for my part would be charme to get good Crafty with good own GUI and so on
>>for some bucks to fund you at least a week end movie rental.
>>When you see some lousy programs sold in Internet at 30 or even 40 bucks...
>>Fernando
>
>
>I dont know what this should be good for. You know very well that Bob can't have
>it both ways. He can't sell a program as a private that he develops as a
>Professor.


Actually I can.  But I have no intention to do so as I have said in the past.
My computer chess work pre-dates my employment at UAB and doesn't fall under
their intellectual property rights guidelines not that they would care anyway.
They think about drug patents worth millions, not chess programs worth hundreds.
:)




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