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Subject: Re: 2005 Review(new,Hydra,Zappa,Fruit,Toga,Rybka)vs(Junior,Fritz,Shredde

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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