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Subject: Re: On the Voyager Issue, briefly -- to Bob Hyatt

Author: Mika

Date: 11:00:14 02/17/99

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On February 17, 1999 at 08:18:01, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>Bob,
>
>I read your report carefully. The story is over for me.  I know where I am now,
>and what I have been doing.  About my doubts -- yes, I did have them but there
>was that different style of play, my good faith and a rationally based
>conviction that the author is a brillant person.  For all I know the author IS a
>brilliant person.  However, I have enough evidence now to form my opinion about
>those early versions of Voyager -- R=3, some eval changes (e. g. bishops getting
>more bonus vs. knights than you assigned), plus some other Voyager specific
>changes which I will not mention now as the author is still, I think, working on
>the program (hopefully making a wholly new product).  Bob, thanks for doing what
>I thought you should surely do -- presenting evidence.  From now on, the version
>playing on ICC (a terrific blitz player otherwise) will be labelled as Voyager,
>by Robert Hyatt, modified by G. Mueller.  I do intend to run it more when I have
>time, as I truly believe it to be one of the best blitzers on the Net.
>
>There are some other points that I have raised in the discussions with Dan Homan
>and Jeremiah Pennery that I think are worth further elucidation. Perhaps later
>at some point.
>
>Regards,
>Djordje


You state that the author is "hopefully making a whole new product"...I thought
one of the main points of the debate was that ANY chess program that starts with
Crafty code MUST make its code open source as well. Yes?

If the author hasn't done this, then HE IS IN VIOLATION OF THE COPYRIGHT, AND
THE ILLEGAL PRODUCT SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM ICC. How the stolen code plays is
irrelevant.




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