Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:17:02 02/23/03
As usual I research the more general problems, since I am not a born programmer. When I see that many people in CC support around 200 amateurs - that's how they are called- who created FREE programs, and certain spin doctors who write about "difficulties" for the "professional" experts, I see several questions. 1) Who created the many features say of the ChessBase database program? FREE amateurs or professionals? 2) Could someone tell me what feature, just 1 example because I don't know any, was at first created by amateurs? 3) I read that people adore FREE programs like ARENA. They are proud that ARENA has all the features, or almost all, ChessBase also has; I ask if ARENA is a clone of ChessBase8? 4) As a more technical question: Is a smart amateur programmer able to program a clone of professional products? Or is cloning impossible if the code is secret? 5) Could someone show - perhaps for other fields - what results out of the so called copying of professional ideas and products? Isn't it the consequence that the professional creative people become exhausted? 6) Then, is't it a consequence that then also the amateurs have no longer something to copy? [NB I do NOT say that amateurs only copy all day long. See point 4 where I ask if copying is possible.] 7) Who could tell me how the development in a field continues in case of amateurs cloning? 8) In short: I see the danger of less progress and NOT- what the supporters and fans are doing - a higher coloring of a scene. What do you think? Rolf Tueschen
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