Author: Marc Lacrosse
Date: 14:15:13 06/15/05
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On June 15, 2005 at 16:38:37, Gabor Szots wrote:
>On June 15, 2005 at 09:43:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
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>>I am delighted to present you this highly moral -and funny- story :
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>>Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + - Draws
>>1 Fruit Massy 2005 : 58.5/100 58.5 2620 2680 60 60 25.0 %
>>2 TogaII 0.93 : 41.5/100 41.5 2680 2620 60 60 25.0 %
>>
>>Congratulations to Fabien Letouzey!
>>
>>Long live original opensource free quality software ...
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>I don't see any moral aspect here. Toga is recognized as legal.
So anything legal is moral ?
When you build the major part of your program on the efforts of someone who gave
it opensource to the community, I feel that you should at least keep the same
opensource policy, and give the largest credit to the original effort.
That is my feeling and I do not see why I could not express it publicly.
So for me it is quite pleasant that the original author could take the time to
further improve its own work.
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>What would you say if it turned out that Toga was stronger?
Not a shame, not a pity, just bad luck.
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>You could equally say that who wins a sword duel has right.
That's exactly the opposite.
I just began feeling sorry to see everybody praise Toga's strength ("may be the
best amateur program") with less and less people crediting Fruit for a large
part of Toga's success.
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>The time control you use is questionable anyway.
Evidently so, but as any time control in fact...
I myself presented them as completely preliminary results, and I am not yet
completely sure myself that Fruit is better than Toga in short blitzes.
And I have yet no idea of their respective strength at longer time controls: I
got a copy three days ago !
But if Fruit Massy preliminary results were confirmed, you won't be able to
prevent me from being delighted with it.
Marc
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