Author: Daniel Mehrmannn
Date: 07:34:27 06/22/05
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On June 22, 2005 at 09:38:54, milix wrote: >On June 22, 2005 at 09:05:32, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: > >>On June 22, 2005 at 07:36:50, Andrey Popov wrote: >> >>>>There is really no reason why you should compile fruit. >>>There are many things that somebody wants to change and experiment with. Only >>>some of them are tunable via UCI options. I also wonder which of five novations >>>in 2.1 after 2.0 is responsible for such huge improvement. I want to turn off >>>them one by one and compare. There are no options in Fruit 2.1 to do it. >>>> >>>>All other things/reasons looks not so happy for me. >>>I suspect you think about yet another clone ;) >>>I think nobody who reads CCC will produce new clones, >>>because there is already no fun (he will not be the first guy who made a clone) >>>and there are no chances to hide it. >> >>Thats a little bit more complicated. If the users see that we're helping each >>user may more and more users starting request. You really don't know the >>reasons of each user why they are want this. You can't control this too and may >>become more problems. Clones are one point yes, but the list is long. >> >>So we need a general hard line to handle it fair for all. Otherwise a user could >>say "You helped Mr. X, why not me ?" And so on. >> >>So my opinion is all should get the same support, here specialy no support. >> >>daniel > >This is totally against the reason Fruit released source code. If someone is >prohibited to try his own ideas what is the point of releasing source code of >chess engines? > > This support of such users has nothing to do with GPL. Basicly i have no problem if someone try out own ideas. As a condition you should understand chessprograming and at least c/c++. If this fails may we have playing kids and nothing more. Sorry for these hard words ! My english is not so good as i could explain it better. Of course this is no personal attack to any CCC member ! greetings Daniel
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