Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:29:00 08/27/00
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On August 27, 2000 at 11:01:35, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>On August 27, 2000 at 08:26:10, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>Well, I really believe so. We'll see.
>>
>>Our second target is to cross the 2700 Elo line in the SSDF (because they drop
>>it down 100 points) and we worked a lot for this too.
>>
>>The first target was to win in London...
>>
>>Ciao
>>
>>Sandro Necchi
>
>Lets hope that Millenium will let SSDF publish all the ELOs for their programs,
>and not only the ones they pick.
>If they don´t, I think that Shredder will not be at the SSDF-list at all. :-(
>
>Best Regards
>
>Hans Christian Lykke (SSDF-tester)
>http://home3.inet.tele.dk/hclykke/
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I don't understand why you need
Millenium's permission to publish your results at all. Even if the license
agreement states this and you agree to it, it is absolutely powerless legally.
At least in Brazil such a contract would be valueless because the stipulations
are legally valueless. I'll give you a small example: the owner of my apartment
here in Rio included a number of unpleasant clauses in the rental contract
placing the financial responsibility of certain maintenance obligations on me.
These clauses are completely non-standard and ridiculous, yet I still signed it.
Why? Because by law those responsibilities are his and no contract is above the
law, so should a problem arise and push comes to shove (an English expression
that means we see who is stronger), it is he who will have to reach for his
wallet, not I. I do not know what Swedish law is like, but I'd be surprised if
it were different on this matter. Consult a lawyer rather than be intimidated by
a pointless agreement. I understand why Rebel is not there, as Schroeder has
stated that the auto232 affects the results and therefore compromises the
objectivity of the tests, but to my knowledge no such claim was made about
Shredder. Furthermore, Stefan has stated himself here in this forum that he had
no problem with Shredder being tested, so you would not even be going against
the programmer's wishes.
Albert Silver
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