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Subject: Re: Crafty-List question

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 16:59:39 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 19:33:34, Amir Ban wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 19:15:40, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>BTW, would you be willing to make your source code available to inspection by
>>the ICGA officials in case someone came claiming Junior is a Crafty clone
>>without any proof ?
>>
>>Uli
>
>I would have said "no case to answer", but I would not fail to return emails or
>phone calls.
>
>Amir


Let's take counterfactual reality a bit further.  The Committee would have then
gotten your email with the message "no case to answer" and the phone
conversation would have conveyed the same message to the esteemed group
"Gentlemen, I can't tell you much more:  there is no connection whatsoever
between my program and program X".  If I got things right, they actually got as
much from Fritz Reul in their first and only phone conversation -- so much can
be gathered at the CB site.  Fritz then left home to sit for a math exam...

Conclusion to be drawn:  you would have been disqualified and banned by the
Committee, just like Fritz Reul and List because you did not let the board
examine your program code.  I don't think that you would have liked that, being
disqualified without any substantial evidence against you.  They admit to having
only "circumstantial evidence" though.  Do you consider that sufficient to
disqualify and ban an author and his program, and is this perhaps a dangerous
way of opening the flood gates for future complaints based on suspicion,
speculation and whatnot, without any substantial evidence?

Djordje




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