Author: Madhavan
Date: 06:50:37 06/14/05
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On June 14, 2005 at 09:09:46, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 14, 2005 at 07:33:26, Madhavan wrote: > >>>It's easy to overestimate the impact of hardware. Fruit was maybe twice as slow >>>as it could have, which translates to -50 Elo from what I have read. >> >>I hate your hardware >> >>>>why are you disappointed,7/10 is a good result! >>> >>>I've just explained why, it has nothing to do with the final score which is >>>clearly good. >> >>you didnt correct my "7/10",its 7/9 :) >> >>>>I will see to it.atleast it would bring 50 more elo points,who was the operator >>>>there?have you been operating fruit? >>> >>>Make that "at most" 50 Elo. >> >>yeah,I cannot wait for a long time to have a new version of fruit.its too >>late,release it Man! :) > >I guess that after Fabian release new fruit some people will sell the same thing >or slightly modified fruit with a new name. > >It already happened with patriot and I am afraid that the programmer plan to >sell it not by arena. > >It is illegal but if people think that they can make money of it they may do it >and there are people who never read about fruit and will only read that there is >a new progran in similiar level to the commercial programs and I also guess that >there are buyers who do not care and will be happy to buy some modified fruit >that is slightly better even if they know that it is a clone and it is illegal. > >The question is what steps can be done against the cloners who do not care about >the fact that they do something illegal(espacially if the police in the relevant >country decide that it has no time to deal with cloners who try to sell their >program because they have more important things to do). why didnt Fabien stop other engine programmers from cloning his program? its fact that fabien allowed author of Toga and gave away the permission of not a clone,a new program with modified and improved fruit is patriot a clone? of course noone would buy unknown engine,most chess people buy chessmaster and fritz,its well known is toga allowed to play world champs? >Uri
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