Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 13:51:15 05/05/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 04:29:01, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 05, 2005 at 04:12:41, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On May 04, 2005 at 20:47:33, Nog wrote: >> >>>Read here : http://playwitharena.com/directory/news.htm#124 >>> >>>Turns out the "new sensation" by Vladimir Yelin is A Fruit 2.0 based >>>clone(Fabien LETOUZEY.) >>> >>>A Very gib hit to the chess engine world, Espcially after so many people >>>volunteered to test the new engine and Really Worked hard and gave their best. >>> >>>My Heart goes out to Frank Quisinsky and the other testers Who spent days and >>>nights of their free time only to get stabbed in the back. >>> >>>Hopefully better news next time, >>>Arnor. >> >> >> Frank has stopped marketing Patriot because he is not >> really sure that Patriot 2.0 isn't a clone of Fruit >> by Fabien LETOUZEY. But have we (enough) evidence for >> such an accusation? >> Kurt > >Vladimir Yelin did not deny the accusation in his post >http://f27.parsimony.net/forum67213/messages/4755.htm > >He only says: >"I will not read this forum, and speak about clone." > >I do not think that this is a behaviour of an innocent person. Maybe the response of a person who is pissed ? Frankly , that is a commercial world - not an amateur's world ... and with Frank already bitten once , may want to cool things down by removing sales until doubts are cleared : unfortunate , but understandable from a commercial viewpoint. From a programmer's viewpoint , if some idiot tommorrow comes out with similar accusation against one of my programs , I would respond more harshly. When you are investing your freetime into a hobby , I wont like some arbitrary guy coming and telling me what/how I should and should not be doing. Attempts at character assination is not nice - especially in this world of computer chess where community is more ready to believe a clone accusation than to support the author. Which would be one of the main reasons why I support the author even if I personally dont know him - nothing in fruit or crafty or gnuchess or xyz was not already known anyway : and code copiers will die down soon enough while the really interested will continue. This does not mean I support cloning - but please go beyond the literal meaning of the statement to what I actually mean , too late here to rephrase it. This is one of the prime reasons why I dont want to write a open source chess engine (I support open source devel in all other fields) or release binaries of my engine. Life is already full of problems without having to respond to things like this which will only increase blood pressure :) Mridul
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