Author: Alexander Kure
Date: 10:56:20 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 06:46:10, Bella Freud wrote: >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 This is avery strong accusation! Can you give some facts please! Greetings Alex
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