Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 08:59:46 01/27/04
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Hi Mogens, > I'll leave the programming evidence to those that know best. However, I'm a > bit sceptical about similarity of filenames and symbol names. A thorough > search of available engines would probably reveal a good deal of > common "inspiration", which probably vanishes over time. well, for a programmer the showed stuff here in this forum somewhere should be already enoug to get very suspicious... of course similar strings, filenames etc. do not give enough evidence to call something a clone or crafty-related or whatever - but it makes one suspicious... Suspicious enough to ask the author for some prove. He refused. According to the rule he must be disqualified then because he does not follow the rules... Anyway, I heard that someone has even debugged List (I have no idea which version) and in the evaluation nearly everything was crafty-like. I have not done this myself, so I can not say to much about this - but this makes one even more suspicious... My opinion is, that List might (!) have started with great parts of Crafty, using it's environment - and later he has changed very much, especially in the search. If this is true (I don't know) this would be okay anyway, if he would remark that and give some thanks to Bob. If this is NOT true, I wonder why he had so many problems a) to show the Jury some evidence that it is original b) to give afterwards some statements. Greets, Thomas
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