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Subject: Re: Zappa: Likely to be released free?

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 12:45:47 08/20/05

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>i do hope they sell this program for money.
>
>IMO it is worth the money they would take.
>
>for all others version 1.0 is free.
>but i would like to see them making some profit out of it.
>
>why not ?

I don't mind spending money on chess engines, not at all infact as i have spent
too much in proportion to what is rational :)

However i think that it might be a mistake to try and profit from a program like
Zappa, as the time and energy it takes in setting up sales, costumer service,
webpage, extra gimmicks etc etc. in proportion to what you stand to earn
potentially is not worth it guess as the return, if any, would be really small
plus that time and energy could be spent making the engine even better.

So unless Chessbase is waving a big check, i suspect it would be too much work
for too little money. (i would buy it myself, but what would "the average joe"
pick, chessmaster or ...Zappa).

Jonas



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