Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 03:43:00 06/19/05
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On June 19, 2005 at 02:24:52, Roger D Davis wrote: >Since Fruit is just a notch down from Shredder and Fritz, Data? I've seen nothing which remotely allows such a conclusion. I'm quite sure Fruit 2.1 is about 100 Elo-Points behind Shredder 9. This is a very tough gap. it looks like that >maybe with some further improvements, the strongest chess program could be open >source. That would be a tremendous victory for the open source movement, and >would prove the superiority of open source over proprietary development. > >I'm curious about the directions that programmers might pursue to develop Fruit >to the point of being strongest in the world. Can it be done? How can it be >done? What's the best way to do it? Would it have to be done in steps? What are >they? > >Roger I don't think that will happen. I'm even not sure if it could happen. SMK is a damn good programmer I'm not sure whether 20 programmers together are able to catch him. Besides I don't think it is a good idea to create an open source program which is srongest, this would certainly hurt the commercial market tremendously and I see no need in doing so. Furthermore I don't think open source is superior to proprietary software. It's just another way of developing it with it's advantages and disadvantages. It creates competition which is always welcome but it should not aim to destroy the market for proprietary software. regards Joachim
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