Author: Joseph Ciarrochi
Date: 20:46:20 12/22/05
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This does sound very suspect. I am curious. How can you tell if one engine is a clone of the other (with some modifications), without the source code? best Joseph On December 22, 2005 at 23:33:40, Greg Simpson wrote: >When the searchable database went online, I went back and looked at the earliest >posts about Toga, since I was curious about what had happened. While some of >the discussion apparently took place on a German forum, the essence of what >happened here was: > >Toga was privately submitted for testing without source (bad, but easily >forgivable once corrected). I didn't see anyone say that it was explicitly >claimed to be independently developed, but by at least by omission it implicitly >was. When exposed, the claimed reason for the deception was that no one would >test Toga if they knew the truth. This was very bad, as he was intentionally >defrauding the testers of their time. Thomas posted a humble apology and >published the source, which pretty much ended the matter (because what more >could be asked for?), but didn't mean that everyone forgave him. > >Others have felt that the real reason that Thomas chose to hide the close >relation to Fruit was to take the credit for himself. I myself am willing to >believe Thomas' stated reason, but really I don't think it matters much either >way, ethically speaking.
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