Author: Slater Wold
Date: 10:35:31 05/04/02
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On May 04, 2002 at 04:12:54, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On May 03, 2002 at 17:13:59, Slater Wold wrote: > >If you are going to post something about my connection to the Rebel Company, I >would first check this out, f.e. by asking me. For me it is very funny that you >talk about law and come with some statements that you haven't checked. To be >very clear about this: I am not an employee of the Rebel company. I said it was a possibility. You're very correct, I do not know your connection with the Rebel company. However, I do know you've been paid and/or compensated for work on their book. Which, according to copyright laws, might forfeit your right to your book. >Besides, the matter I was discussing here in this forum had to do with hacking >the book (your point nr. 5 below). People had hacked the code in which the Rebel >book was written and converted it to their own format. And I find it fully >correct that something should be done about this. This is totally wrong, and I apologize there are really stupid people in the world. :( >To add another point to this discussion: What about the various possibilities >under the available GUI's? Any program that runs under such a GUI can use ANY >book that is available. Giving it a huge advantage over other programs that do >not run under this specific GUI. It is easy to melt together several books and >use them for your own program. As far as I am concerned, this is very worrysome >for the W(M)CCC and other important competitions. I was in Maastricht last year >and I saw that programs like Ferret, Crafty, Diep, Spider Chess, XiniX, Pharaon >were severely handicapped by the fact that they had to fight programs that used >'loaned' books. > >A few people tried to convince me 'well Jeroen, it makes it easy for you: You >just have to crack a few books to get a good result for Tiger'. But as I am a >person who wants fair competition, I don't like this trend and therefore I want >to do something about it. If rules stay the same, the ICCA says 'it is not a >problem for us' okay, so be it. But there HAS TO BE a discussion about it. Of >course after a final decision has been made, I will always ask myself what to >do. If I don't like it or come to the conclusion that unfair competition is >allowed, I simply will not attend to such a tournament anymore. > >One final point about your last line (If you don't want somebody to steal your >lines, don't sell them): Suppose I would do this? Than thousands of customers >are losing the possibility to learn from my books as there are some guys who >want to illegally hack them. Is this what you want? Some people spoiling it for >the rest? Of course not. But do you really think it's possible for you to stop them? Microsoft got tired of having their product ripped off, so they made it mandatory to 'register' Windows after you bought. If you didn't enter the "special" code before your 30 days was up, it stopped working. Guess what, that got hacked before Windows XP even came out. We do want we can to detour them, but we all must know, you make something public, and people are going to rip you off. Sorry. >Jeroen
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