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Subject: Re: suggestion for a rule for exposing source code in world championship

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:39:24 02/27/04

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On February 27, 2004 at 18:31:18, Telmo Escobar wrote:

>On February 27, 2004 at 10:22:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>
>>How will this help?
>>
>>I win the even.  Five years later I say "no way".  What is the remedy for that?
>>I have had the title for five years, even if I cheated.  There is no way to go
>>back and eradicate five years of publicity.
>
> If, after five years of publicity, you say "no way", everybody would assume you
>cheated and that means the rest of your life of negative publicity. That would
>prove fatal if you were a young programmer trying to get a name in the
>profession.
>
>  Telmo

Perhaps, perhaps not.  There are plenty of "fly-by-night" one-year wonders
around.  And even ignoring that, who could be sure that what I release 5 years
into the future was the actual program that won 5 years ago?  Hard to get the
same hardware, etc...

No way to make this work 5 years hence.  It is hard to make work today...



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