Author: Nicolas Carrasco
Date: 13:14:39 11/26/99
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Thanks for all your message Pete, But Bruce's standpoint was to find a guy to build the GUI as some days ago said are there any other reasons? Can a privateware engine be more impresive and unpredicable at tournaments? UruChess will continue as a Freeware engine and will be released soon after some tests. Nicolás Carrasco http://www.puntadeleste.to/uruchess/ On November 25, 1999 at 22:37:31, Pete Galati wrote: >On November 25, 1999 at 20:31:10, Nicolas Carrasco wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Before writing UruChess, I was decided to make it a freeware engine but now as I >>am finishing UruChess I started thinking the advantages of haveing a privateware >>engine. >> >>Can anyone tell me that Advantages and Disadvanges? >> >>Thanks > >Off the top of my head I don't see any advantages of privateware unless you want >to approach it from Bruce's standpoint and don't want to release it as a >Winboard engine, and don't really have time to put together an interface (no >small task). > >One posible advantage that I can think of for releasing your program is that you >will receive suggestions and critisism needed to help you improve it, and when >the general public can download a copy of your program you _will_ feel more >obligated to make it good and improve it, and it _will_ get tested against other >programs, so your pride will enter into the equation because you will want your >program to move up the scale strength wise. > >I only see advantages (for most programmers) for releasing their program, and if >UruChess only plays on Chess servers or tournaments it holds absolutely no >interest to me at all, and in other words, if I _could_ download Ferret, I >would, and I'd use it if I liked it (probably would), but I can't download >Ferrit so other than being somewhat ammused by that fact, Ferret holds no >interest to me at all, and I feel no need to get a copy either, the same would >apply to UruChess if it was privateware. > >Pete
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