Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 05:34:55 01/12/01
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On January 12, 2001 at 06:17:22, Steve Maughan wrote: >David, > >>A society that hides it's knowledge inside competing teams, will never develop >>as quickly as one where knowledge is shared. The competition will still be >>there: "How can I take all this public knowledge and develop it further or >>revolutionize it?". > >Look at it another way - "why would I bother taking all this public knowledge >and develop it further or revolutionize it?" if I'm not going to profit from it. > >Profit is a great incentive for progress - that is not in doubt. > It sure is, but it is not the only one. In this case, as in many others, profit limits progress. The incentive for wanting to develop in general is not economic. It is personal. If you ask Christophe what he would rather have taken from him, the thrill and satisfaction of getting the ideas that he has gotten, or the money he has made from it, I think he would rather let the money go. >>One person, team or country can only do so much. > >Another point is that once a chess program is released - even though the source >code is private - other programmers see what it can do and can figure out which >direction to go in. As an example Gambit Tiger has played some interesting >Chess recently due to some enhancements by Christophe. I'm sure others are >thinking "how did he make it play that move" and "why does GT score this >position +3.50 when my program scores it as +0.45". This thought process guides >the programmers to develop their own solutions as opposed to relying on others. > >Steve
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