The Whistleblowers

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Enir
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Re: The Whistleblowers

Post by Enir »

Tony Thomas wrote:Not everyone shunts whistleblowers when they provide enough evidence. I had said a while back that I was going to buy Rybka 3, now that I have seen compelling evidence of Rybka's beginnings I have changed my decision. I wont buy Rybka until I get a decent explanation from Vas about all the similarities in codes between Rybka beta and Fruit.
Guilty until proven innocent. Your loss, because Rybka 3 is a real piece of art. I have Aquarium and Deep Rybka 3, and to compensate for your changed decision now I also got the Chessbase version.

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fern
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Re: The Whistleblowers

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I agree with you that with a simple change of line you can cripple any program as with a single screw you can stop an engine, but another ball game is getting something vastly superior. There is not simetry in this, chris, and you know it.
Respect the licence you have mentioned so much, I cannot but agree with you that IF Vas efectively used a shunk of it and later he did not made public his work, he is sinning.
But my point has been this, all the time: that no matter the technical breach of that law, if existed, from the point of view of chess programming progress in general what matters is what Vas got on that ground.
If he had just made a clone more or less similar to the source, as has been th rule in these cases, nothing could pardon him. But as much the result was so mighty, then I consider a matter of "common sense" not to stop on that.
He took a slver coin and made of it a gold coin. No time to ask who was the owner of the silver coin, but to wonder of his technique of alchemy.

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Fern