It goes way beyond that.Don wrote:I don't really expect the stuff in Komodo that is unique to be mine forever. Even if I don't publish them people will either figure out the ideas for themselves, deduce them from observation (only a few can be seen this way) or someone will reverse engineer it. Some ideas I have shared with trusted friends and they may appear in open source or get spread in other ways.
Suppose someone RE's your next Komodo 6 and then:
- Discusses the results openly on this forum.
- Publishes the source code in a different language (say, Fortran or Pascal) so that it's an obviously non-competitive engine but still shows all the details of your evaluation and search.
- Integrates important search and evaluation elements in his own engine, and then distributes his engine source code to competitors.
- Provides help on the forums to other people that want to RE Komodo.
- Releases a free Komostrelka 1.1 that plays exactly like your commercial Komodo 6.
If you approve of all this, I will hire Jury Osipov to do the job.
Cheers,
Robert