Author: Don Dailey
Date: 08:40:26 06/03/98
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On June 03, 1998 at 00:05:56, Komputer Korner wrote: >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. >-- >Komputer Korner For what it's worth, I support such a development. - Don
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