Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:34:40 06/15/05
Go up one level in this thread
On June 15, 2005 at 17:15:13, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>On June 15, 2005 at 16:38:37, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2005 at 09:43:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>>
>>>I am delighted to present you this highly moral -and funny- story :
>>>
>>>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 ...
>>
>>
>>I don't see any moral aspect here. Toga is recognized as legal.
>
>So anything legal is moral ?
The original author has no objections and has plainly stated that fact.
If a program is licenced GPL, then that is (in fact) the actual intention.
>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.
>
>>
>>What would you say if it turned out that Toga was stronger?
>
>Not a shame, not a pity, just bad luck.
>
>>
>>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.
>
>>
>>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
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.