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 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 have > also read that the biggest pirates of computer software come from Germany, > the UK, and the US. The foreign exchange student we are hosting from Beijing > China said that most people in China do not buy software, but download it > for free off the net. > > So what is true? > > mike -- Petri Pitkänen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/