Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 18:38:17 09/26/05
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All is Fair in Love and War. It will probably turn off a lot of potential buyers from buying Fruit with your copy protection approach. There is no win-win situation here, you probably will not sell as many copies because of this copy protection scheme. The chess engine market is too saturated know. Learn from Microsoft, they thought that after releasing Windows 95, people were going to switch right away to Windows 98, then MS released Windows ME, again with huge expectation that these people running Windows 95 would make the switch. MS tries to get wise and decides to stop support for Windows 9x, no more patches nor updates. Well, there are people who are happy with Windows 9x, and not may people are switching to Windows XP either. MS is trying to put the final punch with Windows Vista. Let's see how many will upgrade. And MS already stopped to support Windows 2000 in order to force the increase of sells of Windows 2003. It is not a question whether it is right or wrong, to keep potential honest buyers from buying your product because you made it hard for them to install will always be a turn off. I hope you get enough sells, and you succeed in this very competitive chess market. Unless your engine can offers new features, such as training to help the average chessplayer to improve, I don't see it as a good sell. Only hardcore chess computer collectors will jump in the bandwagon and buy it. Just like computer PC games, most games sell because of some die-hard gamers.
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