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Subject: Re: Programmers! It's time to port _ALL_ chess engines to LINUX ! (NT)

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 02:30:11 08/15/01

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Hmm. If it's that important to you, why not find an engine with Win32 source
code, contact the author and port it yourself? Chess programming is a hobby for
me (and many others, I expect), and Windows 2000 fits all my requirements for
enjoying this hobby:

- excellent development environment (Visual Studio)
- brilliant compiler which seems to be unmatched by anything on the Linux
platform (Visual C++)
- Good support for integration with GUI tools and chess servers

Given all this, why should I port my engine to Linux? Don't get me wrong, I
quite like Linux, but I also enjoy Windows. One day, perhaps, I will port my
engine to Linux, but I will need a good reason first. The only reason why
programmers should port _ALL_ chess engines to Linux *now* is anti-MS bigotry.

- Adam



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