Author: blass uri
Date: 13:39:44 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 14:52:10, KarinsDad wrote: >On May 11, 2000 at 04:55:07, blass uri wrote: > >[snip] >> >>I was in the past a beta tester of Junior and I found holes in the program. >>I found also after analyzing Rebel's game in the Isaeli league a hole in Rebel. >> >>I think that in most of the cases programmers cannot spend two hours to fix the >>hole. >> >>Amir Ban did not fix some holes that I told him more than a one year ago. >>Ed told me that he hope to fix the hole that I found in the next version so I >>guess that it is clearly more than 2 hours of work. >> >>I believe that I can help programmers by finding holes in their program and >>giving them ideas to help their program but I do not like to do it for nothing. >> >>I have also many ideas what to change when I am sure that part of them are >>productive for chess programs and I posted some of them here. >> >>I will agree in the future to be part of a team for a chess program only if I >>can get part of the money when it becomes commercial. >>Most of the job is of the programmer and I expect him(her) to earn most of the >>money. >> >>Uri > >I think the problem here is one of the role you want to play, and the role the >programmers want you to play. > >The programmers want you to be a free beta tester if you wish. > >You want to be a free beta tester with design and bug fix input, or a paid beta >tester with no design or bug fix input, or even best of both worlds, a paid beta >tester with design and bug fix input. > >I think the only way that you are going to be satisfied with this is to write >your own program. Expecting other people to credit you with finding holes in >their program, or expecting them to fix holes that you have found in a timely >manner, or expecting them to implement your design ideas is probably >unrealistic. I know that other programmers will probably not implement most of my ideas but I know also that they can implement some of them(when they do not need to change their design decisions). Writing a new program is not an easy task and as I am probably not going to do it without another person who want to work with me on the same project. Uri
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