how an engine survives?

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Re: how an engine survives?

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Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
mhalstern wrote:Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.
Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?
err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?
I wasn't referring to Rybka.

Besides, not all programmers seem to agree on that one anyway.

Faien gifted his source code to the community to study and learn from.
He released it under GPL. btw seems your mate Chris now disagrees with you.
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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
mhalstern wrote:Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.
Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?
err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?
I wasn't referring to Rybka.

Besides, not all programmers seem to agree on that one anyway.

Faien gifted his source code to the community to study and learn from.
He released it under GPL. btw seems your mate Chris now disagrees with you.
I stay out of these matters now and leave it to the programmers to argue about.
I was just making the point that there is no clear agreement amongst programmers on either the Rybka/Fruit or Rybka/Ippolit cases.
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Re: how an engine survives?

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Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
mhalstern wrote:Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.
Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?
err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?
I wasn't referring to Rybka.

Besides, not all programmers seem to agree on that one anyway.

Faien gifted his source code to the community to study and learn from.
He released it under GPL. btw seems your mate Chris now disagrees with you.
I stay out of these matters now and leave it to the programmers to argue about.
I was just making the point that there is no clear agreement amongst programmers on either the Rybka/Fruit or Rybka/Ippolit cases.
Graham you posted yesterday in a thread in engine origins - that is not staying out. You will worship your god, vas, forever it seems no matter what evidence is provided.
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Re: how an engine survives?

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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
mhalstern wrote:Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.
Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?
err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?
I wasn't referring to Rybka.

Besides, not all programmers seem to agree on that one anyway.

Faien gifted his source code to the community to study and learn from.
He released it under GPL. btw seems your mate Chris now disagrees with you.
I stay out of these matters now and leave it to the programmers to argue about.
I was just making the point that there is no clear agreement amongst programmers on either the Rybka/Fruit or Rybka/Ippolit cases.
Graham you posted yesterday in a thread in engine origins - that is not staying out. You will worship your god, vas, forever it seems no matter what evidence is provided.
I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
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Re: how an engine survives?

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Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
mhalstern wrote:Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.
Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?
err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?
I wasn't referring to Rybka.

Besides, not all programmers seem to agree on that one anyway.

Faien gifted his source code to the community to study and learn from.
He released it under GPL. btw seems your mate Chris now disagrees with you.
I stay out of these matters now and leave it to the programmers to argue about.
I was just making the point that there is no clear agreement amongst programmers on either the Rybka/Fruit or Rybka/Ippolit cases.
Graham you posted yesterday in a thread in engine origins - that is not staying out. You will worship your god, vas, forever it seems no matter what evidence is provided.
I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
I think you are pathetic in the way you pretend you sit on the fence but always support Vas.
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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
I think you are pathetic in the way you pretend you sit on the febce but always support Vas.
As a non-programmer, it seems the right thing to do to sit on the fence and let the programmers sort the issue out.

Not quite sure how you see that as supporting Vas.
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Re: how an engine survives?

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Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
I think you are pathetic in the way you pretend you sit on the febce but always support Vas.
As a non-programmer, it seems the right thing to do to sit on the fence and let the programmers sort the issue out.

Not quite sure how you see that as supporting Vas.
You do not sit on the fence on the Rybka forun here are a few of your gems:

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Re: how an engine survives?

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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
I think you are pathetic in the way you pretend you sit on the febce but always support Vas.
As a non-programmer, it seems the right thing to do to sit on the fence and let the programmers sort the issue out.

Not quite sure how you see that as supporting Vas.
You don not sit on the fence on the Rybka forun here are a few of your gems:

Image

Image

Image
[/quote]

What's wrong with those? That's just a humorous take on things.
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Re: how an engine survives?

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Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
I think you are pathetic in the way you pretend you sit on the febce but always support Vas.
As a non-programmer, it seems the right thing to do to sit on the fence and let the programmers sort the issue out.

Not quite sure how you see that as supporting Vas.
You don not sit on the fence on the Rybka forun here are a few of your gems:

Image

Image

Image
What's wrong with those? That's just a humorous take on things.[/quote]

Let us see 3 anti vas cartoons then?
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Re: how an engine survives?

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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:I have not given an opinion on whether I agree or disagree regarding the Rybka status for a long time now Harvey.

As for your worshipping Vas comment, that is just pathetic and you should know better.
I think you are pathetic in the way you pretend you sit on the febce but always support Vas.
As a non-programmer, it seems the right thing to do to sit on the fence and let the programmers sort the issue out.

Not quite sure how you see that as supporting Vas.
You don not sit on the fence on the Rybka forun here are a few of your gems:

Image

Image

Image
What's wrong with those? That's just a humorous take on things.
Let us see 3 anti vas cartoons then?[/quote]

How are these supposed to be pro-Vas? They're just a humorous take on what has transpired.

Firstly Fabien going after Rybka and the ICGA banning Rybka as a result.

Secondly, many strong new engines automatically being regarded as suspicious and/or unwelcome, despite the fact that there is now much stronger open source code available for programmers to study than there was previously.

Thirdly, just a bit of a laugh at the whole sex robot thing.
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