Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:50:33 11/09/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 13:39:10, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 09, 2002 at 11:48:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >> I think you need to clarify this for your own image ( if that is important to >>you). >>Let's not leave any doubt's about your program authenticity either way. My >>opinion only > >I don't think there's anything wrong with taking an idea that another program >uses and implementing it in your own program. The question is did he copy and >paste the code into his engine (which he said he didn't) or did he see an *idea* >and do the implementation work himself? > I think this is correct. Code from crafty won't directly port to his code without a _lot_ of work. So it turns out that whatever he borrows is almost certainly "ideas" and "methodologies" only, which I don't see as a problem. >From his response it sounds like he is borrowing ideas, not code, and isn't that >the idea of releasing an open source engine in the first place? Ken Thompson >said "Good programmers write great software: great programmers steal great >software."
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