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Subject: Re: The privilege of becoming a beta-tester

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:15:56 09/05/00

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On September 05, 2000 at 16:52:18, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On September 05, 2000 at 15:50:53, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I do not think that you are right.
>>Most people will say that getting the program that you test is not sufficient.
>
>No, I disagree, I have faith in the integrity of people in general.

I do not see why do you think that refusing to test programs only for getting
the program is something immoral(If I understand you correctly).

>
>>I believe that I have some productive ideas for chess program that I did not
>>discover and chess programs do not use.
>
>Well, if you didn't discover them then it's even less morally correct
, or do you
>mean that you discovered that the ideas weren't being used?


I mean that:
1)I thought about some ideas.
2)I discovered that the ideas are not used by chess programs.
3)I told nobody about the ideas.

I do not see something immoral in what I did.

 No matter what, I
>wouldn't pay you a dime if I was a programmer. But that's just me, some may have
>a different opinion.

Nobody paid me for being a beta tester but Ed paid me for operating Rebel
Century in the Israeli league and I earned more money relative to the price of
chess programs from this job.

Uri



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