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Subject: Re: Fafis 2.6

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 10:28:14 01/17/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 12:58:50, Mario Antonio F. wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'd like to write this note not as a pure response of your comment, but as a
>starting point of thought (not necessarily discussion).
>
>I have also read the rumour that Fafis is a clone, but I have not read any proof
>of this.

You seeem to wish it was a rumour? No it wasn't.

>
>Stating that a program is a clone should be considered as a very serious matter.

It was not only _stated_ and all this is old news anyway...

You can read about the second case of cloning in several fora
and that the author also promised to send the _real_ source,
which should compile to Fafis 2.6 to WBEC _after_ a _lot_ of
hints for a clone were already out. Of course it never
happened. Several people had a look in the pseudo real source
and even here there was enough to find...

I wonder why we always have to discuss a clone again after the
case was already closed for several months, just because
an anonymous tries to gain some attention, or has a certain agenda?
Is it just speculating on the bad memory of the community,
a moot attempt in rehabilitating, when the dust had settled?
Clones? What clones?! Did we ever have clones?
(BTW did we ever have viruses in clones too? Rings a bell?
Was it ever obfuscated? Did it ever reach 7 plies more between
version 2.52 and 2.6 in a few weeks?)

-> look up the WB forum, the WBEC forum, the Exacta forum and the
CSS forum and search for 'Fafis + clone' and you'll find enough
informations for case 1 + 2.

...snip ballyhoo...

Guenther



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