Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 15:07:05 02/16/99
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On February 16, 1999 at 17:31:56, Dan Homan wrote: >Good point. My language condemning the general behavior of copying >another's work (in large part, at least) and passing it off as one's >own was perhaps too strong and not clearly separated from exploring the >facts of the individual cases. > >Anger and frusteration about the general practice and the investigation >of individual cases should be clearly separated. It is unfair to do >otherwise. I apologize. > > - Dan Thank you. You needn't have apologised. Perhaps I owe an apology for being to persistent here. After all, we are still talking about a copy of an experimental program that played only on the servers and that has not yet been published anywhere (either as shareware or freeware or a commercial product). This copy will eventually have been dissected and commented on, after which some sort of verdict will have been pronounced. Who will be the judge and what could the author of the experimental program be possibly accused of? Experimenting with and testing an experimental program that has not been commercially exploited (allowed for all I know)? Utilising a free source for the sake of experimentation (allowed for all I know)? Code-sharing while tinkering with the free source (allowed as well)? Not translating all comments from English into German while experimenting (hmm, we are not going to discuss this, are we?)? Taking part in a World Champs as a clone (charge dropped, no evidence)? Taking part in the Dutch Open, or the German Open in Paderborn (charges dropped, no evidence)? What, Dan? What is actually at stake? An interdiction that one cannot experiment as much as one wishes to with a free source, even without making the program commercial, or without entering it in official competitions? Punishment for thinking that it is sufficiently different from Crafty to be running it on the servers? All these are issues that should be addressed and discussed. Of course, there are moral isssues here too. That is why the whole matter is so complicated and the situation a mess. I wish I was somewhere else right now. Say, playing Exchess on my computer and drinking ice-cold tea. But, as it is now, I have to stand up and fight for rationality and clarity. Regards, Djordje
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