Author: Robert Allgeuer
Date: 10:24:39 08/09/05
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On August 09, 2005 at 10:34:20, Stan Arts wrote: >On August 09, 2005 at 10:05:54, Joachim Rang wrote: > >Well, that's great, but his code without Fruit would mean he would go from 0 to >0 Elo, wouldn't it? >Writing a program to play 2600 Elo takes ALL the work, then playing around with >it's existing components isn't so difficult is it? Who wouldn't be able to do >that? And if you play around long enough sure enough maybe you'll get lucky and >find something that works. Especially since you can just undo crap ideas. It's >called "tuning". Not exactly a reason to give a program a new name. > >>Fabien decided to adopt (some) of his ideas. > Yes, Toga would definitely not exist without Fruit, and Thomas Gaksch would probably never have been able to implement his ideas. But this is the point: open source and GPL fosters re-use, at the same time assuring that new ideas are fed back into the general knowledge. Which was the case here. Improving an already very strong program is very difficult, otherwise we would have programs of strength 3000 and more all over the place. Robert >:) > >Regards, >Stan
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