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Subject: Re: Give Wholehearted Praise when Due

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 12:11:28 08/21/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 14:06:57, Stephen A. Boak wrote:

>On August 21, 2005 at 04:13:16, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>
>[..]
>
>>But it seems that citing Anthony alone without even mentioning Fruit when
>>praising the advent of noncommercials is bit biased, to say the least.
>>
>>Marc
>
>It seems also that well-deserved praise of a magnificent victor is unjustly
>diluted by looking around to spread one's commendations on other competitors.
>
>Anything less than wholehearted (unreserved, unrestricted) praise is a bit
>biased, to say the least.

Sure you do only read what suits you.

I think that I have posted some of the most enthusiastic posts regarding Zappa's
achievements all along the week.

I did it largely before it became so consensual to be as over-bidding as
possible.

see for example this one (443485):

"Subject: Re: Shredder-Zappa : two masterpieces in a row"
"In Reply to: Shredder-Zappa posted by A. Cozzie on August 20, 2005 at 09:15:15:

"I thought Shredder-Fruit was the best game for long and then you come with two
true masterpieces in a row.
Congratulations to Erdogan and yourself !
Your price wil be more than fully deserved
Marc Lacrosse"

I still maintain and confirm :
- that zappa is not opensource and never was whereas fruit's code is and always
was (and has yet been copied largely)
- that there are more than persistant rumours announcing zappa to become
commercial very soon.
- that I find this normal, fully deserved, and that I wish Anthony full success
if he goes commercial

I also maintain that praising Zappa ALONE as the best evidence of a kind of
revolution regarding the present achievements of non-commercial programs without
mentioning fruit is completely biased.

THIS is in no way contradictory to the fact that I consider that the level of
chess-playing demonstrated by Zappa is really outstanding.

So you won't be surprised that I  still consider Ed Shroder's post to be highly
debatable.

So who are you to give me moral lessons ?

To take your own words I _already_ had comments that were "wholehearted
(unreserved, unrestricted)" praise of zappa's play and achievements.

and as far as i can remember :
This was _long_  before you joined the crowd on this topic.

Marc Lacrosse





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