Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 12:44:41 02/17/99
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On February 17, 1999 at 07:44:06, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Dear friend:
>What you have said about Crafty bau sue, missuse or whaterver has been already
>said and does not add nothing to the debate. You have failed to understandt the
>arguiment by Dgeordge. And that by Dayley also. The point is: yes, there are
>abuses, wrong doings, etc, BUT the nenefit of still having Crafty freele
>available suprass all that. We are links, just links and the issues about legal
>rights and so on are importan but just an episode in the history of human
>progress. Remember the discussion between Darwin and Wallace respect to whom was
>the author of evolution theory? That's was an important legal matter, but nobody
>care about that now: what matter is the theory in itself. In this process of
>cooperation trhought competence that is the stuff with which human endeavour are
>made, all kind of ugly things happens, but that is the price to be payed for
>evoliution to go on. I am sure that the cheating or abuse of a guy because he
>copy-pasted Crafty source and then won a mean price somewhere is a lot less
>important than the fact of the many programmers that has gone beyond his own
>resoruces thanks to Bob gift. He is a man to be praised because of his
>detachment, probably one of thge most admirable virtues a human being can show.
>Detachment, you know, mean to forget the ego in a good degree.
>fernando
Maybe I did not express my thoughts well. I completely agree with you.
However, there are bad things happening, which can't be allowed to propagate as
they {seem to} have been doing lately. It would be a great loss if Bob stopped
releasing Crafty source, no matter the dangers in doing so, but, again, the
unattributed copying of the source should be stopped.
Jeremiah
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