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Subject: Re: Djenghis in cct4

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 12:40:24 01/15/02

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On January 15, 2002 at 15:23:16, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 15, 2002 at 14:06:33, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2002 at 12:02:38, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>>
>>>On January 15, 2002 at 08:35:00, jefkaan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 15, 2002 at 00:24:06, pavel wrote:
>>>>>Yup, it's better to deal with it than talk about it, and coz misunderstandings.
>>>>>If it's not a clone than the author shouldn't have a problem to cooperate.
>>>>
>>>>ok, i've sent a copy of the recent sourcefile (only one file..)
>>>>to the tournament organizer (Volker); nullmove recently added
>>>
>>>You should not have sent anything at all, unless everyone of the participants
>>>send a copy too. What is this? a selective witch hunt against newcomers?
>>>This is ridiculous and you should not have fallen for this. Is Vincent
>>>going to send a copy too?
>>>There was a similar problem last time against a program that did too well.
>>>An amateur program and was accused of many things making the programmer
>>>very uncomfortable, putting him in a position to prove his innocence.
>>>Why? even pretigious people here get paranoid.
>>>
>>>My quesion is: Is everybody now going to send a copy of the version
>>>used in this tournament or you were finger pointed by a spurious accusation?
>>>
>>>Miguel
>>
>>I agree completely. I am certainly not going to participate in any tournaments
>>that demands that I send any source code. I haven't released my source yet, and
>>I will decide myself when to do it.
>>
>>/David
>
>releasing your source code and sending a copy of your source code to the
>tournament organizers are different things.
>
>I do not understand what is the problem if you trust the tournament organizers
>not to make the source code public and not to use it to create a clone of your
>program.
>
>I could undertsand if you plan to do your program commercial and do not want to
>reveal secrets that may help the organizers to develop a program that is better
>than your program but I understand that it is not the case with you and you plan
>to release your source code.

It is a matter of principles.

Miguel


>
>Uri



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