Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 15:57:49 05/12/05
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On May 12, 2005 at 18:26:32, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Ask David Copperfield :-) > >>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?! > No, I said people can share ideas ,algorithms (like Ed Shroeder did for example) helping others, without making their projects open source, thus tempting to clone them. >> 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? > If they could make money of it, they WILL steal it. But I can't imagine how can books become closed source :) Robert
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