Author: Bella Freud
Date: 11:36:55 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 13:56:20, Alexander Kure wrote: >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! > As a minimum parallelisation, which is his main claim to fame as a unique contribution. Then end game table bases, from Eugene, but developed with the Crafty project. The very clear code descriptions within Crafty. All is clear to understand with no spaghetti coding. Bella >Greetings >Alex
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