Re: [Bug-gnubg] Bug-gnubg Digest, Vol 175, Issue 9

[tchow]

Thomas Malloy wrote:

> I would be pretty insulted if I was a gnubg developer.  I mean really.
> What kind of a pimple dick would you have to be to put some sort of
> cheating code into the program?

In fact there was a version of GNU Backgammon that had cheating code.  
It wasn't hidden, however; as I understand it, the idea behind it was to 
demonstrate what real cheating looks like, and thereby to demonstrate 
how the non-cheat mode was nothing like that.  But of course this plan 
was a failure and I believe that most GNU developers regretted that 
episode.

In any case, it looks like most people in this thread don't understand 
the points I'm making (which I guess I should have anticipated since I'm 
trying to use logic to convey it...) so I'll let the matter drop.

Tim