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Subject: Please refrain from posting erroneous information

Author: Harry Field

Date: 10:30:05 12/06/00

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On December 06, 2000 at 10:52:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 06, 2000 at 01:20:08, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>On December 06, 2000 at 00:50:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>>Isn't this the latest fad?  Can you say "deep junior", "deep fritz"?  Care
>>>to guess where "deep" was first used?  :)  Ie what could be more confusing
>>>than "deep junior" after there is already a very famous program that went
>>>by "deep blue junior"???
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>>I wouldn't have dared to say it myself. I happen to be in perfect agreement with
>>you on this topic.
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>I'm a big boy.  I don't mind stating the obvious.

Except you happen to be wrong. Big boy.


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>>>Seems to me that borrowing from a "famous name" is quite acceptable,
>>>wouldn't you think?
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>>I did not say it is not acceptable or illegal.
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>>It's just a low commercial practice. And generally used by followers, that's why
>>I have been disappointed to see Stefan doing it.
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>>    Christophe
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>I wouldn't begin to claim to know the motivation behind any of the look-alike
>names.  I simply don't like the idea much.  IE "crafty" is "crafty" whether it
>is a parallel searcher or a serial searcher.  I don't like any of the following,
>personally:
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>1.  the name is a proper subset of the name of another program.  IE there is
>already a program named x y z, and the new name is either x y, x z or y z.
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>2.  the name is an improper subset of the name of another program.  ie there
>is a program named x y, and the new program is named x z or y z.
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>1 certainly leads to mass confusion.  2 leads to some confusion.  Both seem to
>be 'strange'...
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>IE on ICC we have had a "deepblue", a "deeperblue".  A "diepblue".  Etc.
>I don't like any of them.  Since none have Hsu/Campbell/Hoane/etc behind them.

Hsu/Cambell ripped the name "Deep Thought" off from the Douglas Adams book
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Deep Thought was a computer which was
supposed to be able to answer the question of life, the universe and everything,
taking seven million years and producing the answer "42".

Also around at that time, as "big boys" will remember, was the Linda Lovelace
porn movie "Deep Throat", featuring a prolonged act of oral sex for the "first"
time on mass release in video porn stores. The name "Deep Throat" was then used
for the mole in the Nixon administration which was feeding inside informations
to Woodward/Berstein team reference the Watergate scandal. Whether Deep Thought
or Deep Throat came first (sic), I don't know. Both came before Hsu and co.

Deep Thought was then renamed Deep Blue for IBM purposes. How your theory that a
ripped off name could then be 'owned' and further users of it castigated is
beyond me. Have you an agenda or case to prove?


"Gambit" is a well known chess term and is and has been used left right and
centre for quite a while. You can purchase chess programs at "Gambitsoft", you
can purchase "Kasparov's Gambit", there is a "Gambit Tiger", programs now are
released with "versions" containing Gambit in the name. We know some of you like
to own everything, but facts right before foot goes in mouth in future, please.
You are not original.




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