Author: Gabor Szots
Date: 06:19:22 02/27/04
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On February 27, 2004 at 09:12:25, Roger D Davis wrote: >On February 27, 2004 at 08:46:16, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I think that the following rule should be a good rule for world championships. >> >>Every programmer who participate in the computer world championship has to >>expose the source code of the program 5 years after the event. >> >>It can be good for the following purposes: >> >>1)Preventing clones and at least clones will be exposed after 5 years. >>2)progress in computer chess because people will have access to more >>information. >> >>I suggest 5 years because I believe that if we decide about short time then it >>may prevent the participation of commercial programs when in case that the code >>is exposed only after 5 years then 5 years is enough time to make a significant >>improvement in the program so good programmers can continue to earn money from >>selling chess programs and participate in the world championship. >> >> >> >> >>I think that commercial secrets that are kept forever is a bad thing and it is >>better to have a world when it is not allowed to have commercial secrets for >>more than 5 years. >> >>commercial secrets for a limited time are needed(otherwise people will have less >>motivation to do things) but commercial secrets for unlimited time are bad for >>progress because people have less information to learn from. >> >>Uri > >So how you can you ever be sure that they exposed the correct code? You'd never >know. You can, because the executable is immediately available. And the source can be compiled again later. > >Roger Sorry for the empty message. Gábor
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