Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 15:31:07 06/04/99
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On June 04, 1999 at 13:41:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. The answer is very simple: human nature. Just like computer viruses, why do viruses exists or why people make viruses? There are good and evil, just like dark and light. So it's best to learn to accept the existance of such things and move on... In the same reasoning, why some people use drugs? Because it's there...
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