Author: Mike Hood
Date: 21:02:46 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 22:00:35, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >On December 12, 2005 at 21:45:44, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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 > >Yes, perhaps "deserve" is too strong. Maybe i would rephrase " it would be nice >if they could eke out a living creating these wonderful programs." > > >concerning the notion of "unimportant activities"...... > >How many of us create something unique that gives a lot of joy to 1000 or more >people? Is that unimportant. > >Does chess code ever influence main stream programing, thus making an important >contribution? > >regrettably, "importance" rarely has anything to do with income level. You have >a doctor who gives rich women fake breasts and a nurse who takes good care of a >senile grandfather. Who makes more? Why do teachers make less than advertisers, >prosecuting lawyers make less than tobaco lawyers, et etc.? > >best >Joseph Jim Carrey supposedly gets 25 million dollars per film. Don't get me wrong, I love his films, but payments like that highlight the "unfairness" of our society that pays entertainers more than school teachers. But to get back on topic... I doubt anyone chooses to write a chess program as a way to get rich. Idealism? A love of chess? Whatever the reason, it's not monetary.
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