Author: Pete Galati
Date: 06:13:37 10/31/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 02:12:30, Micheal Cummings wrote: >On October 31, 1999 at 00:13:17, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On October 30, 1999 at 22:44:17, Micheal Cummings wrote: >> >>>On October 30, 1999 at 17:42:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On October 30, 1999 at 16:12:12, Pillsbury wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi >>>>> >>>>>I must appreciate the programmers who do a fine job of creating a grandmaster >>>>>who waits for me round the clock, ready to play chess anytime. I even deside how >>>>>strong he can play depending on my mood! The price I paid is very small. I must >>>>>appreciate the commercial programmers. There is competition to make sure that >>>>>there is contribution, improvement etc., This is the way nature works. The >>>>>fittest will survive. >>>>> >>>>>I do not believe in 'free stuff' especially when I want the best! >>>>> >>>>>karthick >>>> >>>> >>>>Sorry you feel that way, because you are going to miss Linux, Xwindows, gcc, >>>>and a zillion other things that are as good or better than anything you can >>>>get commercially. >>>> >>>>However, there is always someone willing to take your money, so you won't >>>>be disappointed on that front. :) >>> >>>From my point of view I have nothing ahinst free stuff, I have found some handy >>>free programs. >>> >>>But when it comes to chess I have always had the impression that freeware chess >>>programs are not up to standard of commercial. This is clear in the interface, >>>but from tourmaments that people have run, commercial program always seem to be >>>better than freeware. >>> >>>Many freeware programs seem to be written more because it is a hobby. This does >>>not include the larger companies which produce internet broswers and the such, >>>cause they have other agendas to push. >>> >>>I do not use any chess program that run on winboard, cause I hate the interface. >>>For ICC I use Blitzn. >>> >>>If you wrote an nice interface for your program years ago, you could have been >>>rolling in allot of money, thats if you are not already. >>> >>>Mental thought dictates that Freeware is cheap in both quantity and quality. >> >>You don't understand the concept of freeware at all, they're not trying to be >>"rolling in allot of money". And the top programs that run in Winboard are far >>from "cheap" in quality. Crafty, Comet, and Phalanx are all high quality Chess >>programs, the same can be said for mid strength programs like TCB and Gromit and >>Lamb Chop and Bringer, not to mention AnMon. >> >>There isn't such a wide margin between the strength of the best freeware >>programs and the best commercial programs. The most you can really expect is to >>get a good interface with the commercial programs and there's allot to be said >>for that, but there's not much need to do that any more than maybee once every 5 >>or more years. >> >>Pete > >You misunderstand what I am saying. It is quite clear that the quality of >product of Freeware programs is quite large than that of commercial. I have not >seen a freeware program, in lets say a game that comes close to anything that >you can but for $80 Aus. > >Freeware is usually much smaller and less quality, usually in the interface. Now >you can go on all you want, but being a person who does look at a hell of allot >of shareware and freeware. There is maybe only 3% of freeware products that are >worth using, and this is basically only due to either, no commercial product is >available for it, cause it is not worth making a program for the specific deed. >Or because people want say a PIM organzer, or address book, or download manager, >and the freeware version usually have all they need with no bells and whistles. You are no longer talking about Chess programs.
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