Author: Colin Frayn
Date: 07:52:55 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 09:52:47, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >Don't get me wrong. I am not saying the open source idea doesn't ever work. It >might work for big big projects like linux, or for programs like crafty (but >here I already doubt, how many of the code improvements per version are *not* >from Dr.Hyatt?) but else - forget it. I make most of the bug reports for Beowulf myself. However, because it's open source then people like Ron Murawski, who want to write their own program, but don't particularly feel like learning the coding required for the engine, can just get straight down to writing the eval() function. After all, that's the most fun bit, right? What amazes me is that so few programs can beat Crafty regularly, despite the fact that the entire program's code is freely available. That's certainly a great compliment to Bob's excellent work. >Next I will probably try to start on a Go program. If someone wants to try that >as a group, that would be great fun. But making it open source - no way. I've thought about this before, and made a tentative start. It's pretty damn hard though. What's your playing strength? Cheers, Col
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