On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 07:53 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote:
> Americans have, generally speaking, more respect for the rights of
> others - and guns play a part in that, since many of us choose to
> defend our rights directly. As Heinlein wrote: "An armed society is a
> polite society."
I don't want
ECTED] On Behalf Of Petri Pitkanen
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:23 AM
> To: computer-go
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Selling a computer go program
>
> Commercial market for Go software is in Japan in Korea. Western player
> do not make significant numbers and Chinese prob
21, 2008 5:34 AM
> To: computer-go
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Selling a computer go program
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:53 -0800, Michael Gherrity wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go
> > program would make in a
Americans have, generally speaking, more respect for the rights of others - and
guns play a part in that, since many of us choose to defend our rights
directly. As Heinlein wrote: "An armed society is a polite society."
Google "pink pistols" and "terry mcintyre" if you wish.
I say "in general
> From: Michael Gherrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go program would
> make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the amount of money that
> such a program would earn selling to the general public.
That is obviously true. Prize
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:53 -0800, Michael Gherrity wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go
> program would make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the
> amount of money that such a program would earn selling to the general
> public. I ha
Commercial market for Go software is in Japan in Korea. Western player
do not make significant numbers and Chinese probably find bettre uses
for money - although there more reach Chinese people than people in
Finland.
Petri
2008/11/21 Michael Gherrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I have read th
(a) Much software downloadable from the internet is legal (think gGo,
GnuGo, linux, etc), therefore downloading it from the internet is not
necessarily piracy.
(b) Most of the sums of money I've seen for competitions are trivial
(except the Ing Prize). This might easily change if/when computer go
