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Subject: Re: To Anthony Cozzie and Vincent Diepeveen regarding Zappa/Diep UCI

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 00:04:00 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 02:23:02, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On September 05, 2005 at 16:21:22, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:
>
>>Hi Anthony and Vincent,
>>
>>What you have to lose if you release your engines as UCI? You won't lose sales,
>
>What about pirating? It's easy to attach an UCI engine to an email, it's far
>more difficult to illegally distribute a complete GUI of 40-80-200 Mb. Bottom
>line: I can understand Vincent.
>
>Ed

yes.
either you spent much on looking for a copy protection of the engine,
or you put it into the GUI.

i would also not like to see programs like shredder, zappa or hiarcs beeing
EXCHANGED without the programmers getting money.

therefore i let it to the programmers how to sell their stuff. i do comment that
i would like this and that, but in the end it is the decision of the owner of
the sources.




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