Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:42:20 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 14:34:50, Wayde Beasley wrote: [snip] >Tim Mann does NOT own the standard. He just owns a PROTOCOL, but not the >STANDARD. It is the engine-writers that set standards or adopt standards by >choosing to use Tim Mann's protocol. The standard is just that because the >engine people have chosen to adhere to a single protocol. Tim Mann is in no >position to alienate engine-writers from further use of any standard or any >protocol, for that matter. Just had to make that point. No. This is backwards. Compiler writers do not own the ANSI standard. SQL database systems do not own the ISO standard. Chess programs using PGN do not own the PGN standard. Winboard programs do not own the Winboard standard. The standards dictate how programs must perform, not vice-versa. This is the only way to prevent chaos. If I write a chess program and say that the standard is wrong and do it my own way, who is wrong if it does not work properly? I am wrong.
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