kranium wrote:Graham Banks wrote:slobo wrote:
Norm, keep on working on your clone.
If Tord is really the original author, keep him informed what you are doing. It is only the problem between you two. Keep the "mob" far from it.
What a sick and sad attitude. No wonder there are illegal clones around when people like you encourage them. You should be ashamed!
a small part of the executable for Rybka 1.0 was decompiled and many many dozens of lines of code were found to match Fruit 2.1 almost excatly...
the chess engine community tyrned a blind eye and said 'no problem'...
it it the chess engine community itself that did the most promote 'illegal' clones by not acting on this clear and compelling evidence that Rybka 1.0 was illegitimate derivative of Fruit 2.1.
http://www.chesslogik.com/controversies/
Norm,
as I told you some time ago, you should have worked on your clone in silence, and announce it as a new brand original engine, but only when you reach the Rybka´s strength.
You did not listen to my advice, and the same problem comes again.
Never mind. Try again. My advice is the same, because remember:
all those people who blame you now will contect you to by your engine if it is able to beat Rybka.
So, keep on working hard on what you like to do. And even if you do not succed in acomplishing your goal, never mind: you will spend your time doing what you like to do.
The only mistake you commited was not have conntected the original author.
Could you explain it to me: why did you repeat the same mistake?
Regards.
SL