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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:53:25 08/20/05

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On August 20, 2005 at 17:06:56, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>>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
>
>10.000 buyers?? i think that is waaay to high, i think it might sell 100-200
>tops on a yearly basis. Also 50$ is way to high too for just the engine, 29.95$
>max for that.
>
>Where did you get 10.000 from? you do realize that only the readers of this
>forum, the winboard forum and a couple of others are potential buyers of an
>engine like Zappa and out of these only a few hardcore testers and fanatics like
>myself would actually buy just an engine.
>
>Well maybe i am wrong, but that figure Uri seems incredible at best.
>
>Jonas

I do not think that only the readers of this forum and similiar forums are
potential buyers.

I have a friend who does not read these forums but I tell him if there is some
new interesting engine to buy and he may use them in his correspondence games.

Uri



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