Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:52:00 01/09/06
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On January 10, 2006 at 02:18:41, emerson tan wrote: >I checked fide rated players, they number more than 65,000. I assume a serious >play would invest on a top program. Wrong assumption. Reasons: 1)There is piracy and a lot of people prefer to pay nothing 2)Players think that the level of the programs is already high enough for them. Then there are amateur and computer chess >enthusiast which number more than a thousand. > >Is it safe to assume that a top computer programmer is able to sell 65,000 >copies? No > >I read a post before that a typical version of a program only sell around 2,000 >to 2,500 copies. This is a very optimistic assumption because I read that the copy protection of fruit based on hardware is because of the fact that less than 1000 customers bought it. The fact that I did not read that the copy protection was removed means that they probably still did not sell more than 1000 copies. Part of it may be because of rybka but not all of it. Uri
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