Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:31:18 07/06/04
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On July 06, 2004 at 18:26:36, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On July 06, 2004 at 18:22:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. >>:) > > >Then I had it wrong, sorry. I thought I had read something like that in one of >your rgcc messages. Theoretical question: you could sell a university project or >product out of such a project? Because I thought Crafty came during your time at >the UAB? - What exactly is the answer? Crafty came from the Cray Blitz project as "the next edition". IE even the comments in main.c refer to this parentage. :)
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