Author: Henrik Dinesen
Date: 00:36:32 12/13/05
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On December 13, 2005 at 00:03:18, Uri Blass wrote: >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". > >It is dependent on the definition of rich and >I do not agree with your definition. > >Uri I don't agree either. Each their own definiton. Some of the "richest" people I know have only little or almost no money. But that doesn't mean that rich in money equals poor in soul and brain! It just isn't black or white, and never will be. Regards Henrik
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