Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 23:38:28 12/22/05
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On December 23, 2005 at 02:14:33, Peter Kappler wrote: >On December 23, 2005 at 00:44:26, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On December 22, 2005 at 22:15:18, Peter Kappler wrote: >> >>>On December 22, 2005 at 20:33:50, Zappa wrote: >>> >>>>A different view: >>>> >>>>Hydra, too weak to show at Paderborn >>>>Zappa, the best thing since sliced bread >>>>Fruit, proving once again that KISS works. >>>>Toga II, the clone of fruit with literally 50 lines changed that people somehow >>>>credit as a real engine >>> >>>And isn't it true the the author of Toga initially tried to claim that the code >>>was 100% his? >> >>I do not remember such claim. >>Did he claim that he wrote 100% of the code? >> >>There is a difference between claiming nothing and claiming that the code is >>100% your code. >> > >Uri, he let the testers believe they were testing an original program. He only >admitted the truth after they confronted him with a mountain of evidence that >his program was a Fruit clone. If they hadn't discovered the truth, one has to >wonder if he ever would have admitted it himself. > >He changed 50 lines out of 15,000, and we're supposed to consider it a separate >engine, different enough from Fruit that it deserves a new name? No way. > >-Peter Joachim admitted that Toga is not his original work, and this topic was already discussed to death. I don't understand why should it be warmed up again and again. Toga is another fork of Fruit now, open-source, strong, free, and we should be happy to somebody trying to develop it further. Robert
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