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Subject: Re: are the best programmers getting rich (as they deserve)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 18:45:44 12/12/05

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On December 12, 2005 at 21:30:58, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>I am just curious as to how much the clever creators of fruit and rybka are
>going to make from the engine. How big is the non-comercial chess market? Is it
>conceivable that fruit would sell as many as a 5000 copies (yeilding about 250,
>000$ gross)

No

Based on the fruit team if Fabien sell 1000 copies then copy protection based on
hardware is going to be removed so I guess that fabien did not sell 1000 copies.

I do not know if they deserve to get rich.
People can claim also that if they spend their time on unimportant things like
chess programming then they do not deserve to get rich.

Uri



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