Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:45:22 12/10/04
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On December 11, 2004 at 01:55:17, martin fierz wrote: >On December 10, 2004 at 11:56:14, José Carlos wrote: > >> For those of you interested, there was an interesting debate in Winboard forum >>about the topic, when Richard expressed his point of view in english along >>several posts. >> This is the URL: >> >>http://wbforum.volker-pittlik.name/viewtopic.php?t=818 >> >> José C. > >the thread you mention is about something completely different - open source. >here, we were only talking about freeware. that is not the same :-) > >cheers > martin I know that practically every open source program in chess is free but is there a reason that it has to be the case. Is there a reason that programmers will not sell their source code? I clearly understand the interest to publish source code in order to help to teach other people but people also write books for the same purpose and they sell them so why sell books and not sell source code? If you ask what is the interest of people to buy and not to copy the source then I can think of 2 good reason to buy it. 1)Support:The programmer may help by replying to questions about the source only to people who buy the source. 2)I think that it is illegal to copy the source if the programmer does not let it and there are people that the law is relevant for them and will not act against the law(inspite of the fact that I believe that most people will not consider the law as a reason not to copy for the same reason that I believe that most people in the world are going not to respect the rights of the programmer if the program comes without copy protection. Uri
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