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[Web] Elena Novaretti interviewedANN.lu
Posted on 28-Mar-2003 12:55 GMT by 8 comments
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Italian Ikir Sector interviewed here Elena Novaretti, a long-time Amiga-user who is known for her nice fractal work. She is now working on a MorphOS fractal application. Read the automated English translation here.
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Comment 1Christophe DecaniniRegistered user28-Mar-2003 20:49 GMT
Comment 2Teemu K.28-Mar-2003 21:35 GMT
Comment 3Fabio Alemagna28-Mar-2003 21:43 GMT
Comment 4Miky06029-Mar-2003 09:46 GMT
Comment 5Keith Blakemore-Noble29-Mar-2003 10:52 GMT
Elena Novaretti interviewed : Comment 6 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 29-Mar-2003 17:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Keith Blakemore-Noble):
> I read the FAQ - obviously missed something. Tell me what the disappointment
> is please?

Funny you say you read the FAQ, since it seems you've missed one entire question+answer:

---8>---

Q: WHY don't you release ZoneXplorer to the public? May you at least send a copy
to me privately ?

A: Please read the TechInfo section. I'm fed up with similar questions.
ZoneXplorer will be released ONLY when I implement module encryption since
I'm afraid of disassembling and reverse engineering on the formulas. Also,
actually I'm having no much time to develop it further until I'll get my
working Pegasos computer. ZX works nicely but is still unfinished and not
ready for the "big" public. Actually it requires some know-how not everybody
may have. And it runs on Amiga only... But if you REALLY think you may need
it and could use it successfully (read: you think you're an expert and CAN
write your own formulas) and you've got some sort of Amiga (possibly MorphOS
or Amithlon for speed reasons) we could discuss the matter and I might decide
to send you a copy privately just for your own purpose...
---8>---

That should answer your question.

Let me make some comments on the Elena's answer, now. She says that she will release the program, and specially the formulas - which are the only important thing - only when she finds a way to encrypt them and not let people disassemble them. Well, Elena is likely to never find that way, since doesn't matter if the formulas are encrypted on the disk, because once they are loaded into memory they have to be decrypted, and AmigaOS/ABOX is notoriously lacking MP.

Even if there were MP available, though, one could always find a way to access other processes' memory, one can do that even on linux.

I suggest Elena to just try to publish her studies on some scientific magazines: that's the only way to protect her work.
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