Author: Ingo Bauer
Date: 04:21:20 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 06:26:14, Uri Blass wrote: >I was surprised to see that all the cheap engines that chessbase is selling are >free engines. > >I was also surprised that they sell old version of Sos from march 2000 but maybe >they believe that customers that buy engines instead of downloading them >deserve to get a worse version > >See http://www.chessbase.com/shop/index.asp?cat=Engines+direct&user=&coin= > >I wonder if the authors also earn money from it. >If few people want to support programmers by buying free programs because they >feel uncomfortable with downloading them when the author gets nothing from it >then there is no problem with it but I expect honest company to tell the >customers that the things that they buy are free to download and if they buy >them then it is only if they want to give some support to the programmers. What you are writing is not completly true. Chessbase sold (and is probably selling) these engines since 2000. At that point ALL the engines on that CD where not freely available (maybe precessors but not the CD Version). As an example SOS in an older Version where free but the version on that CD is not free untill today. But if the CD Version is better than the actual one is highly doubtfull! I am pretty sure that the authors back then got some money from chessbase. It didnt make them rich for sure. The project was never continued by Chessbase. >Some more questions: >1)Can We say that Sos and crazyBishop are professional engines because they are >sold by chessbase and does it mean that the authors needed to pay 500$ >registration fee to participate in WCCC? I dont think so. The susspect the Authors got a fix amount of money. Later versions are free again so ... still amateurs. >2)Does chessbase need permission of the author in order to sell free engines or >maybe they can decide tommorow to sell Crafty? Of course they needed the permission of the authors. These engines where (and are) not free back then - see upper text. Bye Ingo
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