Only the lowest strata of the cohort who worship on the Rybka forum would feel comfortable implying that Crafty was a Fruit clone.Uly wrote:Thanks for the praise Samer.
I was actually replying to someone that asked that if a PST table was both in Fruit and Crafty (+8), that from where the table was coming from. It came from Fruit.
But saying "Crafty a clone of Fruit" does that in fewer words (he knew what I meant when I read that), even though "clone" doesn't actually have a definition besides genetics.
*Checks dictionary*
Oh wait, it does:
Clone:
noun: an unauthorized copy or imitation
I don't think bob was authorized to use Fruit's PST table in Crafty, so from this angle, it counts.
And I stand for what I said, Crafty hasn't been scrutinized because people thought they wouldn't find anything a priori. Now that something has been found, maybe that will change.
You mention “a priori” assumptions. Bob is, of course, brilliant at leading people into making such assumptions. Not only does he release fully documented code specifically to fool people into thinking that he has nothing to hide, he also systematically focuses their attention on the specific areas in which he doesn’t want them to look, even to the extent of issuing a specific challenge to Miguel.
Bob also prepares meticulously and has a talent for precognition. He knew that he was going to steal Fruit code many many years before Fruit was released and so he carefully prepared the ground for his cunning deception by opening Crafty code at that point.
I do not have a particularly strong stomach; I haven’t been following the events on the Rybka forum particularly closely and so I could be wrong. However, I will say that the impression that I get is that, unlike some of the members of that forum who appear to be held in high esteem, Miguel is not cheap; I do not think that he has ever stooped low enough to accuse Bob of stealing Fruit code. In fact, I seem to remember that he made it clear in his original post that he was making no such accusation. Please correct me if I am mistaken.