Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:57:58 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 15:45:47, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>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 The average Joe is not important and I guess that there are going to be something like 10,000 buyers who are going to buy zappa for 50$ only as uci engine with no interface in the next year in case that it is sold. If 10$ of it is money that the programmer is going to earn then he can earn 100,000$ for one year. Uri
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