To Hell with Private Engines

[fern]

If they are so private, keep them inside drawers and not send them to tournaments.
With so many generous guys overthere giving his engines for free and dicussing openly his work, these private-men type of guys sounds a note of secrecy, meaness and....go to hell, I wanted to have that rick 48 thing!!!!!


fern

[rbarreira]

It's their engine, they can do whatever they want with it.

[mephisto]

Hi Fern
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Bryan

[bob]

It's their engine, they can do whatever they want with it.

So they can steal source, then do whatever they want? This is happening in a _bunch_ of cases today...

[rodolfoleoni]

If they are so private, keep them inside drawers and not send them to tournaments.
With so many generous guys overthere giving his engines for free and dicussing openly his work, these private-men type of guys sounds a note of secrecy, meaness and....go to hell, I wanted to have that rick 48 thing!!!!!


fern

In this cloning scenario someone could wish to keep his own work out of troubles. Is there any problem with it? Would you ban engines like The Baron from computer chess, just because it's a private work?

[rbarreira]

It's their engine, they can do whatever they want with it.

So they can steal source, then do whatever they want? This is happening in a _bunch_ of cases today...

If they only use it privately and don't distribute it, why not?

Reverse engineering and hacking of software is legal for self-study purposes as far as I know... and I think that it should be.

[fern]

I believed it was clear I was writing tongue in sheek


Fern

[fern]

Yeah, right. One of these days I will write a song about a yellos submarine...

Fern

[Graham Banks]

I believed it was clear I was writing tongue in sheek


Fern

Don't think I want to try that!

[fern]

Ah hahaha , you are right...but in any case it depends...Jennifer Lopez could be a good target for that.


Fern