Daniel Sleator Oct 17 1993, 7:27 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: sleat...@cs.cmu.edu (Daniel Sleator) - Find messages by this author Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:48:53 GMT Local: Fri, Oct 15 1993 10:48 am Subject: Proposal withdrawn Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse We have decided to postpone (probably forever) our proposal to implement a commercial ICS. This is not because we decided that it is a bad proposal, but simply because, based on the response, it would probably not be sufficiently financially rewarding, it would be a lot of work, and we have a lot of other important things to do. We'll continue to run the server for free with all the current features on the best host (or hosts) we can find. I'm looking at two offers now. I think they will both have more lag than coot did. Expect some moves in the near future while we look for the best place. Vishnu has about finished implementing several new features that were intended for the commercial ICS, including simuls, and the ability to examine (play through) a library of stored games. Expect to see these on the server in the near future. I (Darooha) am still not convinced of the advantages of making the code public. I find it humorous that some people's response to the pay proposal was to offer money for the development of a free one! Maybe if that money was offered to me, I would just release the code now, and save everybody a lot of trouble! Make me an offer! :-) There is a way to salvage much of the thinking (and legwork) we've already put into the pay server proposal. Now that we've found a commercial host, we could run grandmaster matches, simuls, and any other pay events we wanted to. Only those who had bought tickets could participate in the events. These events would be totally independent of the ICS. If you want to get involved organizing such events, let us know, and we can start to work on it. Darooha, Vishnu, TheDane, AnteTempore Axel Boldt Oct 18 1993, 5:25 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: Axel Boldt - Find messages by this author Date: 18 Oct 1993 06:30:14 +0100 Local: Sun, Oct 17 1993 10:30 pm Subject: Re: Proposal withdrawn Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse sleat...@cs.cmu.edu writes: >Maybe if that money was offered to me, I would just release the code >now, and save everybody a lot of trouble! Make me an offer! :-) Put it under the GNU license and you'll get my 50 bucks. Axel.