Thomas, don't go!

[Alessandro Scotti]

[Christopher Conkie]

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[Tony Thomas]

Only thing he changed was that it said based on fruit. Compare that to Patriot, he changed a lot of stuff to make it look like something else.

[Christopher Conkie]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gIfJ6C9vD90

[Tony Thomas]

[Volker Pittlik]

...

Of course he has to hit harder!

[Michael Sherwin]

Hey Tony,

This has been a very sad couple of days. Was it not Alessandro that you were saying was such a great guy and that he never made a negative post about anyone. How ironic that the first negative post would be about you. I guess that proves that you did not know what you were talking about after all!

No one is allowed to disagree with certain people and live. It is just that simple. But, they are immortal, because, they never sin and never, never, never are they wrong.

The Terry's of this world rule here. There is no room for mere mortals on their planet. The dead horse that they beat is their own soul and they don't even know it.

Your friend,
Mike

[K I Hyams]

I assume that you would have no objection to 2 programmers working on an engine jointly if they state in the notes that this is what they have done. If this is the case, why would you object to one programmer working on an engine after another programmer has left it, if he states clearly that this is what he has done?

That is not true.

Thomas did not tell anyone that Toga was Fruit until after it had been independently discovered as a plagiarism.

This point is seemingly completely lost on most in here.

Ask yourself one simple question. If Toga had not been discovered at all as being Fruit, do you think you would be any the wiser now?

Do you think he would have told anyone?

Toga is a clone.

Full stop.

Christopher

Hi Chris,
The point that Thomas did not declare that Toga was based on Fruit until he was challenged about it had not escaped me. If that was the issue on which Stan was basing his post, then he did not make it clear. If it was the issue, then it has been dealt with below.

I would assume that the difference between a clone and an engine that has been improved by a second programmer has been discussed here ad nauseam. While none of us know why Thomas originally failed to declare that Toga was based on Fruit, the original version of Fruit was open source and there can be no objection, once that declaration has been made, to Thomas continuing to develop it and to him publishing the modified code.

Given the amount of time and energy that Thomas has put into the project, it seems clear that, from the date that he admitted that Toga was based on Fruit, he must be viewed as a developer rather than a cloner and that Toga is a legitimate engine that has been developed by more than one programmer. Whether or not those programmers were working on the code at the same time is irrelevant.

[Christopher Conkie]

With the amount of time Thomas put into Toga, by now he would have an original engine if that time had been spent in a more productive way.

It's quite simple really. Some want an easy way to the top.

That is completely unfair to the all those original engine programmers out there.

Regards

Christopher

[Martin Thoresen]

I can certainly understand why Thomas doesn't want a part of this.

Is this kindergarden?