Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:06:06 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 17:59:22, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On September 05, 2000 at 17:15:56, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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). > >Well, if you want to offer your services for a price then it's your decision. In >my case I would see it as immoral because chess software is a hobby, not a >carrer move. Furthermore, I wouldn't withold information that might help with >the intent of making money later on. If you did that while betatesting for >Junior, then your acts were immoral IMHO. I did not do it when I was a beta tester of Junior. I told Amir about my ideas at that time. > >>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. > >That depends on how you found out that other programs don't use those ideas. If >you exploited your testing job for that, then you have a problem. I can see that the commercial programs that I have do not use the ideas from watching games. I did not do a testing job for someone in order to discover it. Uri
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