morality and legality of dowloading robbolito

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What is your opinion about using this chess engine

immoral and illegal
18
17%
immoral but legal
16
15%
illegal but moral
1
1%
legal and moral
48
46%
dependent if you bought rybka or did not buy rybka
6
6%
not sure or not one of the options that I suggested
15
14%
 
Total votes: 104

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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:no more mamboo jamboo nonsense please....

Dr.D
When are the Robberlite "authors" going to give their real names?
Actually, probably more relevant is why won't they give their real names? :wink:

a. Roberto Pescatore (italian-english = Robert Fisher)
b. Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin (or Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin ) - is a main character in the novella "The Double: A Petersburg Poem" written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger. In the vernacular, the word "doppelgänger" refers to any double or look-alike of a person. I may think they are implying something here :D !
c. Igor Igoronov Igorovich or just "IGOR" (YGOR) for short maybe refers to their most trusted/reliable "assistant" as in the animated film "Igor" or any fictional character we know in films using such name - horror movies and the like.
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Graham Banks wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:no more mamboo jamboo nonsense please....

Dr.D
When are the Robberlite "authors" going to give their real names?
Actually, probably more relevant is why won't they give their real names? :wink:
Correct,the mess is even bigger there,but at least they are not gathering people around themselves to play the role of an attorny similar to the Rybka case....

If I were in Vasik's shoes and I was a victim as he claims to be,I'll prove it and turn all this negative energy toward the thieves if there's any of course....

Keeping his dead silence doesn't make him a prophet for me....on the contrary,it makes him look extremely suspecious and for a person like me his words are not taken for granted....

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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:no more mamboo jamboo nonsense please....

Dr.D
When are the Robberlite "authors" going to give their real names?
Actually, probably more relevant is why won't they give their real names? :wink:
Correct,the mess is even bigger there,but at least they are not gathering people around themselves to play the role of an attorny similar to the Rybka case....

If I were in Vasik's shoes and I was a victim as he claims to be,I'll prove it and turn all this negative energy toward the thieves if there's any of course....

Keeping his dead silence doesn't make him a prophet for me....on the contrary,it makes him look extremely suspecious and for a person like me his words are not taken for granted....

Dr.D
The key word of your message is "for a person like me". Look, in the culture I was born into, it's always bad if you attack or accuse someone and you remain anonymous yourself. That is a not negotiable. You have no problem with anonymous guys. That is the difference. NB that I am talking about anonymous people who are attacking or insulting. That is important. Else anonymity doesnt interest me much. There are several good reasons for doing that. But then you cant lead wars from behind the walls. Hope that is clear by now.
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Moderation has removed some posts where the discussion has deteriorated into personal attacks involving religion and personal belief's
i have contacted those involved and issued warnings


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Without any adds or examples I want just to clarify what I meant. That is that something like stealing software code is a misbehavior of the stealer, it does not depend on how far the damages are going for the victim. Here in case the victim still has copies of his partially stolen code. Which was Uri's position or opinion. I just wrote my own opinion in a debate.

Hi Uri, I beg your pardon, if you read my former message as insultive for you, as something personal. Please excuse me, it's a misunderstanding. (I just examined my text and saw that maybe the unpersonal "you(r)" that stood for "one's" and not for the addressing personal "you" opened the possibility to misread it. My mistake, sorry.) For all because we have good functioning talking basis. I hope you do agree. Thanks.
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Rolf wrote:
Hi Uri, I beg your pardon, if you read my former message as insultive for you, as something personal. Please excuse me, it's a misunderstanding. (I just examined my text and saw that maybe the unpersonal "you(r)" that stood for "one's" and not for the addressing personal "you" opened the possibility to misread it. My mistake, sorry.) For all because we have good functioning talking basis. I hope you do agree. Thanks.
i dont know if Uri Read your previous post and he did not complain
however we received complaints from other members and so i removed your previous remarks and any replies to them
your current re-wording above is perfectly acceptable
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I think this little intermezzo proved one thing for sure. That, if you standd in front of people who dont want to accept otherwise perfectly rational, reasonable reflections, you are forcedly losing the debate with them. Finally they are taking you for a ride.

With that I'm not talking about myself, but about the standpoint or guideline of Vasik Rajlich. To only assume that he had here a real opportunity of making his well thought points without being defamated or intentionally misinterpreted, in truth he hadnt any chance at all. So in such a no win situation it's better to keep quiet. Well, you can contact him and read his replies on his Rybkaforum.

Personally I am just happy that I am not the mentioned programmer because I didnt have his format. But still I am proud that I could explain some important points. And therefore I want to thank for the tolerance. I see that Graham and Gian Carlo are much better equipped critics of the anonymity of the so called thieves and I beg the members to continue the debate with them.
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The usual idea here is "guilty beyond a _reasonable_ doubt." "Reasonable" being the key word. Yes two programmers could write the same chess program and produce the same binary. Is that a reasonable probability? Not even for a 100 line program of any complexity at all, much less a chess program. It is about as probable as a roomful of monkeys eventually typing the the first two pages of the US constitution word-for-word.
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Rolf wrote:
bob wrote:Commercial programmers want even more of course, since they want to make a living from the effort they expend. There is really nothing one would get in return for the effort expended here, other than "the truth." That plus $3.50 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbuck's. The second is how interested are people in learning the truth? It won't help anyone in any way other than to know the entire story. Someone that has something to gain might take this challenge up, or someone that is simply curious beyond the point that it can be ignored.

There's more than enough already known for most of us however.
If this is the truth then how could Rybka win one Wch after the other? I came to a different conclusion in retrospect. Rybka is sober and therefore played in official tournaments.

Please do also comment on the aspect that Graham mentioned, that allegedly Benitez had found out that Rybka has nothing from Fruit. Sorry, I am also interested in the very truth. But then we cant just discard such informations.
What is there to comment on? I've seen the code from all three examples that we looked at. What Benitez says doesn't mean a thing without something to support the statement. It would take a _lot_ of convincing to make me discount what I have seen to date.

I must also add that once a webpage was proudly annonced which then never came. Where all the proof should be collected about Rybka. Where is that page? Isnt it a proof, at least indirectly, that there are no proves?
Enough was posted here to answer the question, for anyone that wants to look at the data with an unbiased investigation. Some will never be convinced, as no data is good enough. I've seen enough, am convinced, and have moved on. I doubt we will ever see any sort of admission here, which is fine by me. I don't need one, because I _know_ what happened. So let's move on to something productive. This horse is out of the barn, the truth has been recognized by some, it won't ever be accepted by others, so what's left to say?
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bob wrote:
Enough was posted here to answer the question, for anyone that wants to look at the data with an unbiased investigation. Some will never be convinced, as no data is good enough. I've seen enough, am convinced, and have moved on. I doubt we will ever see any sort of admission here, which is fine by me. I don't need one, because I _know_ what happened. So let's move on to something productive. This horse is out of the barn, the truth has been recognized by some, it won't ever be accepted by others, so what's left to say?
Bob thanks for making some points. It's already a bit late here but let me still make a final challenge. So that tomorrow morning things are clarified.

What I read here in this concrete message doesnt impress me. Ok, alone that you make such judgements it means something and I couldnt contradict you in details.

However what I could do is describing what would be more convincing for the mass of laymen here.

Smalltalk verdicts are always secondbest. why not making a short summary with clear definitions "who when did what" and why is this or that forbidden to do, morally, legally, relevant in trials or not, and then a sensible final judgement with a reflection about the overall situation in computerchess, how many such private court cases we've seen, perhaps with a comparison to legal loaning stuff from others, plus a future picture if now anonymous people could dominate computerchess and why they are better in your eyes than decent MIT guys.

But again I would like clear he then did this which is proven by and then estimation. NOT I've seen enough to know what is going on and the horse is out of the barn.

If however you must admit that this costs too much time then the criticism for Zach would apply.

I would then wish that from then on it is strongly forbidden for anonymous and known clique to continue to bash Vas.

Fair enough for you?
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