[Solar-educacion] interesante ejemplo de beneficios del codigo disponible

Vie Jul 16 23:18:44 CEST 2004

> An example was provided regarding the importance of having 
> access to the source code.  A game of scissors, paper, rock 
> is implemented twice.  The first time, the user and 
> computer seem to have about an even chance of winning.  
> However, the second time, using a game with source code 
> hidden, the user invariably loses over a long period.  This 
> is because the computer cheats.  But without the source 
> code handy (it was supplied in a separate location), it's 
> hard to know exactly what's going on.

Daniel