Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:56:50 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 02:08:02, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: >You found 2 binary versions. >Winboard_for_programmers.exe ist only for chessprogram programmer and *not* >public. Plese put this verion not on a webpage/FTP-Server. You can write >that there is a verion for programmer. Send me a Mail and i send you.... > >Winboard.exe is the public version for all people. Please put this on your >Webserver. > >Please read ICS-Observing.txt for more info !! > OK - as the heated threads have stopped now I can answer this one that surprised me. This is very much against the WinBoard "spirit" IMHO. There have been undocumented features in WinBoard for a long time that (at least some of them) had similar effects - some people could do things, others couldn't. All fine with me - but this is really ridiculous - a GPL software, people can download for free - "special" people can get a "special" version - that's pretty ridiculous if you ask me. As the source code is availlable and we talk about uncommenting a few lines of disabled code and re-compiling - do you really think this will stop _anyone_ , and even more - do you think it will stop the people you _want_ to stop? Sceptical. Peter
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