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Subject: Re: Chess for Fun, Chess for Money

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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