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Subject: Re: Fruit Reykjavic

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 20:56:35 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 21:26:12, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

I also know of some guy named Dan Corbit that gives a lot to that computer chess
community.  I could be wrong but I don't think he is being motivated by money.
As far as I can tell he is just a nice guy who enjoys computer chess.



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