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Subject: Sorry! It's Thomas and not Joachim....sorry ...

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 23:40:16 12/22/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 02:38:28, Robert Hollay wrote:

>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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