Author: Darrel Briley
Date: 17:26:41 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
It really doesn't matter what kind of copy protection is used, the software will
be pirated anyway. Name one chess software (or any other type) that hasn't been
cracked/distributed. I'm not saying they should make it any easier for the
pirates, but if this is the only reason for not making it UCI, then it's a weak
one.
DB
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