I don't have access to his code, nor any sway in this matter. In my talks with Vas, he has come across as a very down-to-earth guy, who knows that it is a losing battle to try and stamp out every cloner or pirate. It would be an endless fight, and let us face it: hopeless. Would proving anything stop it from happening again? It is the price of being the best IMHO. One sure doesn't see a long list of top engines being cloned. I'm sure that the day some other engine starts dominating the field, we'll find a whole new breed of non-Rybka clones.Roger Brown wrote:Albert Silver wrote:
The point is this: it wouldn't make one iota of difference even if he DID offer you this evidence. You have already made it clear that independently of the so-called Fruit affair, and even if the Ippos were PROVEN to be clones, you believe that reverse engineering a secretive author's work in order to level the playing field is a FAIR WAY to force him to expose his secrets.
Hello Albert Silver,
Forget about Dr. Hyatt.
What about the rest of us?
I certainly do not want Vas to reveal anything detrimental to his program's dominant position. Is that the only alternative? Why not show some of the parts that are non-detrimental that were already exposed in Ippo (given that his interpretation of the facts is correct) for the rest of us to see?
However you make it sound as if the rest of us could not be convinced.
I can.
Show us, please.
Zero dishonesty or hypocrisy from my side.
Later.
The last I spoke, he had come to terms that these things were pretty much unavoidable, so best to just continue his work and live his life. Frankly, I wish I had some of his equanimity.