Author: Pete Galati
Date: 22:46:01 11/13/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 00:53:54, odell hall wrote: > > > Would someone please explain to me the psychology or motivations behind >programmers who refuse to make their program available to the public. In my view >this attitude or lack of sharing, is no less than criminal, perhaps these words >are too strong, but these are exactly my sentiments. I guess I thought Money was >the drive behind all actions, that programmers would not be able to refuse the >allure of the might dollar. Take for instance Ferret, and Tiger, one wonders if >these programmers are rich and simply do not need the money. Certainly most of >us would purchase these programs if they became availble. Or is it that these >Programmers have a need to "totally" control their programs. Then they won't >have to worry about disappointing results, since they control all the conditions >themselves. Or they won't have to worry about people setting up matches against >strong humans without their approval or supervision. I don't know about >anyoneelse but if I was blessed with the talent of exceptional programming I >would certainly share it with the public and make a little money on the side. There are more Chess programs available than any other kind of game program. I tried to weed out my supply of Winboard engines so I threw several of them out this week (and some of them were quite good too) but I could only get it narrowed down to 16 Winboard programs, but if I move over to my collection of Dos Chess programs, there's approximatly 25 of them, and I weed out programs too so I've had many more than this before. I see no need to have every program that ever existed, there're enough that you can have by either downloading them or buying them. Pete
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