Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:30:18 12/05/05
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On December 05, 2005 at 10:59:16, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On December 05, 2005 at 07:25:49, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On December 05, 2005 at 04:44:36, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>Well, I am shocked by the speed of the computer chess community. There are now >>>200 requests for Beta versions of Rybka in my mailbox. Many of you made >>>interesting comments and asked all sorts of questions, but at the moment I am >>>really short of time and can't give personal responses to everyone. Some of >>>these questions are answered here. >> >>Note that I did not ask to download Rybka because I plan to use it mainly for >>correspondence games and I thought that asking for it because of that reason is >>not nice but I downloaded it because I see that everyone can do it. >> >>> >>>The first piece of good news is that Rybka Beta 1.0 will be available for free >>>download until midnight tonight (Dec 5) on Leo's website. Obviously this targets >>>the more hardcore members of the computer chess community - there are so many >>>here who give their time and share their ideas that I would be embarassed to do >>>anything else. >> >>I think that this also may help other to get it because I guess that there are >>readers of this forum who are going to send it to their friends so practically >>everyone who is going to hear about it may get it by email from a friend even if >>you do not give it for download after midnight. >> >>Thanks for letting people to download it but I doubt if it is a good idea >>because after you give it for free I doubt if many are going to buy it(unless >>the beta version cannot be used forever but I see no details that says that it >>cannot be used after some date in the readme). >> >>Uri > >Uri, > >your points are valid but there are a few other points to consider: > >1) The 1.0 release won't have copy protection so people can spread that as >easily as the Beta. >2) If we were to copy protect the 1.0 release, it still wouldn't stop people >from spreading it, and in addition honest customers would be annoyed and >troubled and people not as expert in computer chess would be less likely to use >it. > >Basically, right now, computer chess sales are in the hands of a certain >company. I want to get a bigger chess crowd thinking differently - not just >Rybka, but also Fruit, Shredder, Zappa, .. maybe Movei :). Then we can really >have some fun. You copy protect the release and try to prevent everybody from >getting it who isn't paying for it and guess what - you'll just live in a corner >of the cave. > >Vas I understand your point and you may be right. Uri
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