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Subject: Re: Fruit Reykjavic

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:26:12 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 21:00:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 20:47:05, Ryan B. wrote:
>
>>I hope this means that Fruit will soon be a closed source but still free
>>program.
>
>
>I hope not and I think that it is better if fruit becomes commercial.
>
>If people do not pay for the programmers to get better engines than the best
>free engines then the programmers of the best engines will have less motivation
>to improve their program and I do not think that it is good for the progress of
>computer chess

Not every motivation need be financial.

For instance, what motivates Dr. Hyatt?  I am fairly sure that he never intends
to make money on crafty.




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