Author: Zappa
Date: 21:16:49 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 23:48:30, Jay Urbanski wrote: >On December 12, 2005 at 21:56:51, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>There are not cases of chess programmers becoming rich. The one that best >>organized his efforts, with a company of his own, great products, good machinery >>of selling and distribution and a lot of years persevering in his work and >>creating a pool of customers was Ed Schroeder and I believe he did not become >>rich. >>Rich; I mean a man with one million dollars or more in the bank account. >>Chris Wittington perhaps approached that definition, but he did not get his >>money selling chess programs, but selling a full company. >> >>By now, with so many available options, I doub very much Fabien or Anthony or >>Vasas will be capable of selling more than couple of hundreds of programs. 3 >>hundred at most. The general chess market is tiny and 99% of it does not know a >>shit about them. They know about Chessmaster and Chessbase products, but not of >>engines for the so called " professional market". >> >>So, no, they does not becomes rich people. None. Not even they could earn a >>living with it these days. At most they add some extra buck to his budgets on >>beer and a shunk of glory. >> >>My best >>fernando > > >$1,000,000 in the bank is not "rich" - at best it is comfortable. Assuming 10% >return per year (an optimistic assumption), that's only $100,000 a year without >touching the capital. Comfortable, mabye... but hardly "rich". I tend to agree, and lets not forget about inflation. My idea of "rich" is more along the lines of $5-10M. But the fact that I'll never have that kind of money doesn't bother me that much; as a single guy who doesn't get out a lot I don't need that much. Hmm, we Americans are showing our greed, aren't we? anthony
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