Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:00:55 12/26/99
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You should install linux, redhat 6.1 is really a big with KDE installed, over redhat 5.x. And it's free too. >On December 26, 1999 at 14:29:42, O. Veli wrote: > A couple of years ago, I decided to buy Rebel 8, after playing for a >while with >the freeware Rebel Decade. I did not need it then, but I had the urge to buy it. >I am still very happy with that decision. Decade led me to buy R8, I highly >doubt that I would have bought it then if there were no Decade. I would like to >thank Mr. Schroeder for providing Decade. > It is a simple, yet highly effective idea of Mr. Schroeder to provide a >freeware version to invite potential customers to buy the full version. It is >very odd that there are no freeware versions of top level programs. A recent PC >World issue gave a list of 100 top programs, and the chess program was Chess-It. >I tried that program a year or so ago, and there are a lot of better programs >out there. A person who is not into chess, or chess computers as we are, thinks >highly of GNU chess, the one with its own GUI (not a whole lot of people know of >Winboard :(( ). S/he may think that Chess-It is a very good program. > On the other hand, if there were to be a master strength Fritz, Genius, >Shredder, Nimzo, Junior, Hiarcs, or M-Chess Light, general public will have a >much better freeware program to play with. Most of them will be happy with it, >and some of them will want to buy the full version. This light version, if There you said the big word: "some of them". May i redefine that as: "a very few of them". Why buy something is next year the current version you can get for free? >distributed with a highly known magazine such as PC Magazine, PC World, Chip, >MacWorld, could reach thousands of people. > I do not see anything that a programmer could lose in this. S/he may sell more >copies. If not, at least the program will be known to more people. I do not know >how hard it is to make a program play weaker, but I guestimate that it is not >too much work. Maybe it is hard to get the attention of magazine editor, but we >can break that with a couple of e-mails. I mentioned Decade and MacChess to some >magazines, but did not get a reply.
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