Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 15:20:12 05/12/05
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When you buy Delphi, you automaticaly get rights to use certain libraries in your CLOSED SOURCE projects. Whereas with GNU GPL licence (Fruit) you have rights to modify the sources, but they must remain open. On the other side, I'm not sure that making chess engines open source was a good practice. People could share ideas, algorithms, code samples, etc... but when a magician reveals ALL his tricks to the public, then the magic disappears ... Computer chess is a hobby, a game, a competition, and not so vital to the human race that one is supposed to share all his secrets with others. Exactly these little secrets can make it exciting! And just one more thing. If you place a well-laid table full of delicious food in the centre of a city full of starving people, then you shouldn't expect that the table remains untouched ... maybe in fairy tales! Robert
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