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Subject: Puzzled about piracy

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:41:43 06/04/99


With all the excellent *free* chess programs that are available, why would
anyone want to steal one?  I simply don't understand it.  And you can buy CM6000
for $20!  Twenty dollars, for crying out loud!  Even the really full-featured
programs are around $100.  So why would anyone even *want* to steal one?

For what I do, I don't think I would ever need anything more than
Crafty+Winboard+CDB+Nalimov TB's.  The cost of that complete outfit is $0.00.
And I did buy some programs just for the fun of it.  I find that CM5500 stays in
the box, and I play with Winboard and Winboard engines most of the time.
Probably just personal preferences, or perhaps I recall the bitter wounds of my
first game against it, which was a *real* thrashing ;-)

At any rate, why?  I want to know why people would even bother to do it when it
is so completely unnecessary.



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