Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 08:46:11 05/28/05
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On May 28, 2005 at 11:34:23, Christopher Conkie wrote: >And where did anyone here say it was an outright clone here Peter? From the "gist" of the messages, it looks like Fafis is being called a Crafty clone. >They are very very similar in lots of ways, in fact Fafis it contains strings >that are only found in Crafty. This does not in itself constitute a proof but >when added to all other similarities, you have to say that obvious is too weak >a word. There are alot of similarities in George Bush Jr's head and a hot air balloon... that doesn't mean one is a clone of the other either. >Regardless of the these stark similarities of the two programs, ask yourself >this simple question. > >Would you entertain the thought of using a program from an author who supplied >a version to all in the community with a worm inside it? Well there was a previous version of Crafty that I supplied to people after I compiled it that had a virus in it, and thankfully someone let me know before it went out to others. I had one on my system and it infected every single exe on my system. Accidents do happen. >Not only that, but by demonstration on all known information was placed inside >deliberately. Read above. There are exceptions to that rule.... >Would you like to use an engine by an author who does this? If were an accident, yes. To err is human, to really mess things up requires a computer :) Peter
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