Nearly all of my early games of go were against igowin. It's a great
program that I recommend to beginners. I even got my wife into playing
it. We've both looked into buying Many Faces. Igowin is an effective
marketing strategy, even if I'm too cheap :)
I've always wondered if we'll see igowin on CGOS or as a competitor in
the open division KGS tournament
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On Nov 22, 2008, at 2:20 PM, "David Fotland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I see about 100 downloads of Igowin for every purchase of Many
Faces, so it
is certainly true that free is far, far more popular than not-free.
David
However, I would say to developers to not worry too much about a
seemingly high rate of piracy. Most software pirates are those who
would
not have purchased the program anyway. For example, a friend of mine
created the first iPhone Go clock (which supports e.g. byo-yomi and
Canadian time). He had it available to download for $2 for a week
or so,
and less than ten people purchased it. To boost his download stats,
he
temporarily made it available for free. Literally overnight he had
around 500 downloads of his program.
So, if you as a developer see only 10% of the people who run your
software actually pay for it, that doesn't mean that if you'd had
perfect copy protection, you'd be getting ten times the cash. It
probably just means those 90% would never have used the program at
all.
~ Ross
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