Author: James T. Walker
Date: 18:16:03 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 15:21:44, Bob Durrett wrote: >On November 28, 2003 at 15:03:55, James T. Walker wrote: > >>At this point it is sensless to speculate whether List is a clone of Crafty or >>not. There was an accusation. There was a request(demand) for source code from >>the author. He chose not to respond as required by the rules. He was >>disqualified for that reason. > >The truth is that neither you nor I nor almost anyone else knows what was in the >minds of the tournament organizers. Their brains may have been filled with >mixed emotions for all we know. We could not possibly know what motivated them. > It's easy to produce a convenient "excuse" after the fact, but had the >complainer not made a stink, none of this would have happened. > >Bob D. > >>It all seems perfectly clear to me. Maybe this >>will cause future rules changes but that's another story. >>Jim It's hard to argue with your statements Bob but the point is that anytime there is a question of the source code of a program competing in the tournament then the committee has a right/duty to investigate the complaint. It the author refuses to comply with their request(demands), then he must suffer the consequences. Of course this could cause all contestants to complain about each others source code and send the event into chaos. I might add that I believe that the author of List should have a right to know/face his accuser. But if he is not interested enough in the tournament to meet the request of the committee then that's his fault. Jim
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