Author: Roger Brown
Date: 17:14:08 12/09/05
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>I do not think that this reason is good enough. > >Not giving it to people is clearly against the wish of a lot of people who are >interested in getting it. Hello Uri, This is incredible. I really cannot believe that you are seriously proposing this as a way forward. So if the majority of is want something that is a reason for us to get it - despite what the author may have thought or wished? Y'know, I have witnessed this trend of thought in a number of posts here and elsewhere and it is sad. I can point to the releases of Fruit, Ruffian and Rybka. Do you notice any similarities? > >The only reason not to do it is that it is possible that the law forbid it and >if that is the law then it is a bad law because a law should be clear and it is >clear that a lot of people believe that it is legal to share something that they >downloaded from the internet withut agreeing to restrictions. It was also clear that a majority believed that the Earth was flat, that the Earth was the centre of the Solar System and that this Solar System was the entire knowable universe. What the majority has to do with what is right - except their capacity to enforce that will through acting in concert no matter how incorrect that action is - is beyond me. > >I think that authors should expect people who download a program to share it so >if they do not like it they should not give it to people except limited team of >beta testers that they trust. Well Uri, thanks for the tip. I am sure that there are other programmers ready to take us beyond the next greatest thing who are noting very carefully what a respected thinker and chess programmer such as yourself - that was genuine incidentally as I may disagree with you but there is no denying your abilities - says about the wider membership here. In fact the distinct impression I get from at least one poster is that hey, who gives a biscuit about the rights of "lesser" nationalities. We can do anything "we" want and who can stop us? The unfortunate thing is, the answer should have been - "our own sense of shame and morals". Moderate away. Later. Later.
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