Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 07:04:17 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 02:07:49, Uri Blass wrote: >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. My guess is that they were too smart for that. I suspect that they realized that there would be no entrants and the tournament would not happen. Bob D. > >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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