Author: gerold daniels
Date: 16:42:45 11/09/05
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On November 09, 2005 at 17:05:56, Tord Romstad wrote: >Hello, Roger! > >On November 09, 2005 at 14:18:44, Roger Brown wrote: > >>A lesson to you Tord. One day you might find yourself in a similar position. >>Then you will have persons telling you that: >> >>(a) Going commercial was wicked since you started out free >>(b) Could they have free versions of your programs for testing etc? >>(c) Could they copy your program with some changes and call it theirs? >>(d) Now that you are commercial then all your improvements from your own code >>must be released. > >The probability that my program will ever be commercial is vanishingly >small, but I think I would be able to cope with all of the above. :-) > >>Tord, you are one of the good guys. > >Thanks! I am sure some people would disagree with you, but at least >I am doing my best. :-) > >>Please hide your source code, > >With the risk of losing my status as one of the good guys, I have to >say that my source code will stay open in the foreseeable future. I >still believe in open source, and I am firmly convinced that the net >effects for the community of having a strong open source program like >Fruit are overwhelmingly positive. > >When a program surpasses the best commercial programs the matter >becomes more debatable, and I have no difficulties accepting that >Fabien felt forced to hide his source with Fruit 2.2. A program on >the level of Glaurung, however, is utterly harmless. Hiding the source >wouldn't make any sense at all. > >>particularly the code of your more interesting forays into computer >>chess programming (Scatha et al). > >Scatha's source code is no more interesting than Glaurung's, really. >It is no big exaggeration to say that Scatha is Glaurung with a bigger >board array and a different lookup table for move generation. >Anyone with rudimentary programming skills could take Glaurung >and change it to a hexagonal chess program (or a Gothic chess >program, or a program for some other game very similar to chess) >within a few hours. > >>Fabien gave us a great free engine. I cannot understand the sheer volume of >>illogical material written here. > >It is not that bad, really. Most of the illogical material comes from >a single person, who may have just completely misunderstood the >GNU Public License (as Dann guessed). I think it has been remarked >before in this forum that there is no German translation of the GPL. > >Tord Hello Tord. You are working on diff. chess programs and doing a good job. Do you think you will write a program that is a little diff. than chess as we know it. Say double the board and pieces on it. Or something like that. I guess you have put some thoughts into this. Would like to hear any ideas you may have on this. Good luck, Gerold. P.S. Hope Edward get his stuff together. :)
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