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Let this be a lesson, kids: cheaters never win.

• perlgeek 15y ago
  While I'd love it if it were true, that's not a valid conclusion. How many cases of winning cheaters are out there that never got caught? Only "cheaters that get caught never win" would be true, but that's kinda obvious.
  • ltamake 15y ago
    I know. I meant it somewhat ironically. ;P
• sireat 15y ago
  I wish this was the case here, but Rybka has clearly benefited financially its "creator"(quotes because of this uncredited copying). As the strongest chess engine in the world for 3-4 years, it must have sold quite a few copies. By comparison, Crafty and Fruit are free and thus unlikely to bring much in a way of a financial windfall. The big difference between this case and countless others where cheaters benefit financially (think about thinly disguised GUI front-ends for FFmpeg, which do not mention GPL anywhere), is that Rybka truly was a superior product from those it copied. Hard to speculate on the motives here but Rajlich must not have wished to share his laurels with anyone.