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Subject: Re: Open source doesn't work

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:23:10 11/08/01

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On November 08, 2001 at 09:52:47, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>The last chess program which I worked on and for which I released source was my
>crazyhouse program, "Sunsetter". I had the special permission of the original
>author of the program it is based on, "Deep Bug", to distribute it without code
>at first.

The reason why you got where you are now so fast is because
Ben-Dean Kawamura released DeepBug with sources under the GPL
license, allowing you to take it and improve it.

That sortof takes down your whole argument doesn't it?

It may not help you _personally_ in a _direct_ way, but that
doesn't mean it doesn't work.

--
GCP



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