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Subject: Re: Autoplay driver not public. Unfair why?

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 21:05:56 06/02/98

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On June 02, 1998 at 18:45:42, Mark Young wrote:

>Could someone explain why Fritz 5, or any other company, is required to
>make their autoplayer public? I keep reading about a gentelmen's
>agreement, and vague statements about unfairness. What agreement was
>made, and who made it?

Ed Schroder has tried to get a gentleman's agreement to have all the
programmers provide their program's autoplay driver to the public. The
idea is that if one program has a secret autoplayer then others won't be
able to test against it while it will be able to test against theirs.
This is unfair. He probably won't succeed because having a bunch of
programmers agree on  anything except the alpha beta algorithm is next
to impossible.
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Komputer Korner



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