Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: It Would Seem The Time For Moderation Is Upon Us..

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 10:48:50 12/10/04

Go up one level in this thread


On December 10, 2004 at 12:55:24, Steve B wrote:

>After Much leniency on the part of the Moderator's, i submit, the time has long
>past for the topic of Arena copyright infringements to be ended.
>permission was asked of the Author and it was denied
>
>any further discussion would now be far from the dictates of this charter and
>should be handled in private e-mails
>
>Best
>Steve


I'm at work now and with limited time to clean up the board.  When I get home
tonight I will delete most if not all messages related to thisthread.   Peter
was able to express his views and the authors were able to post their replies.
All of this , perhaps could have been handled in private e-mail , but it wasn't
and it appears the subject is now close.

There is no question, in my mind, that the authors of Arena do not want Arena on
Peter Skinner's website. I think those wishes should be followed.  I do
appreciate the Crafty files that Peter has hosted on his website and for that he
is to be commended.

In my own personal opinion and derived from posts I have read by the authors,
Arena is steadlily moving towards commercialization of their product and I
believe if that is the case, they should respect charter of CCC and not make
repeated yet similiar posts regarding Arena and it new website and , new
versions , etc., that are really not readily available for most users unless
they decide to jump through hoops or are beta testers, etc etc.

Arena has, perhaps, been one of the best new free chess products over the last
few years and I personally thank the authors for making that easily available to
most users over the same time period.

I think the "free" part is coming close to an end (just my opnion).


Now let;s get back chess computers, computer chess and all that falls in
between.

Best,

Michael Byrne



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.