Re: Eureka

[Darren Cook <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Posted for Rafael Caetano <rcaetano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Darren Cook wrote:

(...)
> There are commercial reasons that people don't release their source or their
> 'secrets'. 
> It seems all the top programs have hand-coded patterns. Even
> 'from-first-principles' Go4++.  So maybe there are no big secrets, and all
> you need is lots of time and tuning. The two top programs at FOST were by
> full-time teams of two years (?), and the next two were full-time
> programmers (of many years), then another full-time team.
> 
> Give away the source code and the income stops, so development will stop.

I disagree. What about all free software we have?
I'm not saying that everyone should publish the source code, but
for many people it's possible to do so without starving.

bye 
    Rafael Caetano <rcaetano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>