Author: Christos Gitsis
Date: 11:09:44 08/24/05
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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 totally agree, Neither was Fabien Letouzey's motivation financial, when he produced one of the very best engines, and released it freely.
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