Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:07:49 11/27/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 01:04:08, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 28, 2003 at 00:13:18, Chessfun wrote: > >>Naturally that is not right. Clearly any author has the right to choose NOT to >>show his source code. I have no opinion either way as I know nothing about >>programming and like everyone else have NO details on the source code of List. >> >>But to say that simply choosing not to reveal his source code indicates guilt >>isn't right as it isn't a rule. It becomes a rule upon the question being >>raised. > >I agree with you here. If any of the commercial entries were asked to show their >source code, they would likely decline. Some may be contractually obligated not >to show the source code to anyone. I am not sure. The question is if there is one person in the world that they can trust to be honest and not use the source code except for searching for clones. I think that the best solution is to force every participant to give their source code for inspection before the tournament to one person that all should trust to be honest and not to use ideas in the source codes that he see for his own profit or for profit of other people. There should be no exceptions. If people change the source code between the round they should also give the new source code to the same person. Is it so hard to find one person in this world that all or almost all trust to be an honest person? Uri
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