Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:49:52 01/24/99
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On January 24, 1999 at 08:57:12, Peter Haupert wrote: >The things that make it complcate with BIONIC are. > >1. They use freeware source code, but their program isn't anywhere to download Right. And I believe that Bob asked to inspect it to see if there were significant changes, and this request was denied by the Dutch tournament officials. I've proposed to the ICCA that for their tournaments, they insist that if someone uses a free program as a base like this, that the new program be available for inspection, as in "here is a disk, go look at it", before the tournament. My feeling is that if someone has "secrets" they don't want to reveal, either the whole thing should be proprietary or none of it. No word from the ICCA, no problem. >2. Mr. Hyatt calls his source code as freeware as an idea for interested guys > to make an own program, which normally could be based on this code. >3. Can anybody say how much of a program must be changed to make it an >autonomous one? Very very good question. Also, independent verification should be possible, because everyone who does this will say that their changes were significant. >4. BIONIC is very successful, maybe more than Crafty. I think I can imagine how >Mr. Hyatt feels. Maybe more, maybe not more, it's hard to tell from some tournament games. You could enter two identical programs in one of those tournaments, and one could win while the other one finished way back. bruce
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