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Subject: Re: Freeware or Privateware?

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 13:42:35 11/26/99

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I have some real good reasons for keeping my program as privateware:

I have a very limited time for my chess programming. I love to sit down now and
then and make improvements (sometimes!), test it against other programs and try
to improve it again. That's how I want to spent that limited time.

1) I don't want to spoil my time on justifying my style of programming or choise
of methods or somemthing else.
After having read all weird accusation that Bob Hyatt have been exposed to and
all the time and energy that he had to spent on that, I decided to not go the
freeware line.

2) I don't want to spoil my time on helping users to operate the program and
what different commands are meaning and certainly not trying to find out what
kind of problems all sorts of hardware and compilers out there are causing. Of
cource I could just igonore all questions but that's not my style of
behaviour...

3) I can always give away the program to friends and people I rely on.

The drawback with this attitude is the lack of feedback from people finding bugs
and positions where the program turns out unsuccessful. I have to find all
things myself. Well, i can live with that!

//Peter



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