Author: Bella Freud
Date: 03:46:10 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 00:53:54, odell hall wrote: > > > Would someone please explain to me the psychology or motivations behind >programmers who refuse to make their program available to the public. Possibly they took a look at what happened to the greatest chess program sharer of all time, Mr Hyatt. His reward was to suffer a barrage of attacks from users, stalkers, envious commercials and all and sundry. I might also add that his "sharing" leads to underperformance as his competitors steal his ideas (parallel, bitboards) and return him nothing but abuse. Therefore any competent programmer will always be able to produce an end-product that is better than his Crafty. In my opinion the greatest attacks on Mr Hyatt come from commercial and wannabee commercial programmers who have benefited mostly from Mr Hyatt's code and ideas, but now want to distance themselves from the man himself in order to pretend to themselves that they did it "alone". Bella In my view >this attitude or lack of sharing, is no less than criminal, perhaps these words >are too strong, but these are exactly my sentiments. I guess I thought Money was >the drive behind all actions, that programmers would not be able to refuse the >allure of the might dollar. Take for instance Ferret, and Tiger, one wonders if >these programmers are rich and simply do not need the money. Certainly most of >us would purchase these programs if they became availble. Or is it that these >Programmers have a need to "totally" control their programs. Then they won't >have to worry about disappointing results, since they control all the conditions >themselves. Or they won't have to worry about people setting up matches against >strong humans without their approval or supervision. I don't know about >anyoneelse but if I was blessed with the talent of exceptional programming I >would certainly share it with the public and make a little money on the side.
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