Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:26:32 05/12/05
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On May 12, 2005 at 18:20:12, Robert Hollay wrote: > 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 ... Which is (of course) a good thing. >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. The algorithms of chess are benefical for many things. It is an abstract search of a complicated solution space. There are many tasks in life that can use the same ideas. >Exactly these little secrets can make it exciting! Hiding information is for lazy people. C. A. R. Hoare inveted a sort routine called quicksort a while back. He showed other people how to do it. What an evil man?! > 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! If you publish a book, you should expect people to steal it then? >Robert
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