Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:14:56 05/12/05
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On May 12, 2005 at 18:57:49, Robert Hollay wrote: >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. The lack of moral fiber by today's crop of people is not the fault of those who are generous and share what they have learned. It is the fault of the weak-minded, lazy thieving varmits. >>> 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 :) Indeed they do. The original authors (of course) have done nothing wrong. It is the plaugerizers who are criminals. >Robert
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