Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:32:20 09/16/05
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On September 16, 2005 at 03:40:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 15, 2005 at 23:33:24, A. Cozzie wrote: > >>So after some negotiation Vincent and I have reached an impasse on the contract. >> I simply don't feel its in my best interests to sign the contract he has in >>mind. I see no reason to mention details of our disagreement, but the reality >>is: a commercial version of Zappa is extremely unlikely at this point. >> >>Zappa 2.0 will be a private engine, as I simply do not have the time to deal >>with the computer chess community considering my workload as a student. However >>Zappa will play in Paderborn and at the WCCC in Italy - and on some hardware >>that might surprise you ;) >> >>From now on any email that contains the word 'zappa' will be deleted by my spam >>filter, so if you have something to say please say it here. >> >>anthony > > >I guess that it is only a question of money If even his laywer says a contract is good, there is nothing i can do. > >I heard that Oosterom, Joop J. van is a very rich man that is using a team of >GM's and computers to help him so I guess that if you sell Zappa to a single >customer he may give you the best prize. >Suppose that he is going to offer you to buy Zappa for 1,000,000$(probably >1,000,000$ is a small money for him). >Are you going to say no to that offer? Yes he is going to say 'no' :) The problem was not money. Some people like Marty Hirsch and Anthony Cozzie are the best programmers, but they have 1 problem in life that they have to live with. Vincent >I think that maybe the best deal for programmers of strong programs is not to >sell them to a lot of customers but to sell them to a single customer(the >customer who agree to pay as much as possible). > >I think that from commercial point of view trying to sell top engines to a lot >of people may be a mistake and it may be better to sell them only to a single >customer so that customer can get advantage in correspondence games. p.s. You are very wrong here. > >I think that it may be a good idea also for SMK not to sell shredder10 to the >general public and sell it only to a single customer. > >It is better to sell 1 copy for 100,000$ and not 2000 copies for 50$ when you >need to give technical support and based on what I read from sandro about >Shredder it seems that SMK does not sell significantly more than 2000 copies per >year. > >Uri
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