Author: Thomas Gaksch
Date: 14:03:07 07/22/05
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On July 22, 2005 at 15:29:33, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On July 22, 2005 at 10:40:14, Thomas Gaksch wrote: > >>On July 22, 2005 at 04:33:45, Fabien Letouzey wrote: >> >>>On July 21, 2005 at 19:01:24, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>> >>>>On July 21, 2005 at 18:33:49, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>All of you who have Toga II 0.94, is it a private beta version? Because from >>>>>Alex Schmidt's website I only see version 0.93. >>>> >>>>Wasn't it supposed to be released? >>> >>>Yes, and that was LONG LONG ago ... >>> >>>So let's be clear for everyone, ANY release that is not GPL is illegal. >>>Beta/testing or whatever is irrelevant! >>> >>>Please all testers that include illegal chess programs in their tournament(s) >>>refuse to do it further, in order to force authors to comply to licences. >>> >>>Thanks for listening, >>> >>>Fabien. >> >>Hi Fabien, >>why are you so agressiv? The Version 0.94 Beta was send to all people who wanted >>to test the version. Of course the source code and the GPL licence was also sent >>to this people. I havent released this version because it didn´t play much >>stronger than the 0.93 version. in my opinion it doesn´t make sense to >>distribute a version which is not stronger than the older version. >>If it is not allowed to send beta packages incl. source code and GPL-licences to >>some testers than i am not able to improve the program. >>Please tell me what i have done wrong??? why should i distribute a version which >>is not stronger than the old version? >>my mistake was that i thought that there will be soon a new stronger version >>which i can distribute. but that wasn´t the case! >>As far as i know ther was nothing illegal from my side. if so please tell it to >>me what was wrong. >>regards >>thomas > > >Let me tell you what I think has been wrong. You've run Toga on playchess.com >for some time stating publicly in the info that that was your "own written >engine" (quote) without ever mentioning Fabien and his program Fruit that you've >built upon. I asked you publicly on the server to please add the reference to >Fruit but nothing happened. You kept on running Toga as your own engine. That >was wrong. > >To make matters perfectly clear I made sure that a German guy write a message to >you as I wasn't sure that you understood English. But I see no change yet. > >That's what's wrong, among other things. And now you have the guts to call >Fabien aggressive... > >Djordje that´s a long time ago. and of course you are right that this was absolutely wrong from me. i apologized me for that many times. but at the moment we are discussing what is the best and correct way to send beta versions to tester. i am not able to please everybody. and it seems that you can´t forgive. after my wrong behaviour i tried to do everything correct. but the problem is, that it is only a hobby for me and some people take that hobby to seriously. for those people everything i do is wrong. fabien is NOT one of this people but there are a lot others. but don´t panic. if there are much more people like you i will stop working on toga based on fruit because a hobby should make fun and i have no fun if i always read threads like this. at the moment there is a little bit action in the computer chess scene. and i think toga was one of the actors which made this hobby not so boring. thomas
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