Author: Tony Werten
Date: 04:50:52 01/17/02
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On January 17, 2002 at 07:30:23, Bas Hamstra wrote: >On January 17, 2002 at 06:54:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On January 17, 2002 at 04:19:32, Bas Hamstra wrote: >> >>>So apparently you were wrong in your prejudice back then. VD puts someone in a >>>bad light, but then it eventually appears things are a tad different. It >doesn't seem you learned your lesson though. >> >>They were 'guilty' as hell for what they were accused of. (Crafty cloning) >>What was missing were all the details surrounding the case, >>and their side of the story. > >They were declared guilty even though (well, minor detail) their side of the >story was missing? They did clone. What was missing in the "discussions" about them was that they thought so themselves as well and never tried to hide it. They asked the TD "We used Crafty and added this and this. Is it different enough or still a clone ?". The TD had a different opinion than most programmers, and allowed them to play. They put on their webside what they did; Took Crafty and added an extensive prescan to it, making it score much better against the old Crafty. So, guilty for cloning, but the whole story makes them a lot less evil. Tony > >>It is also an excellent example of why these things should be >>discussed in public, and not with the TD. (who, Hans claims, >>was well-aware of them being a Crafty clone) > >A public forum is the worst possible place for a trial and error. > >Bas.
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