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Subject: Re: Clones and moral behavior

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 14:26:01 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 17:09:52, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 17:02:59, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2005 at 16:23:45, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On August 23, 2005 at 16:06:51, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 23, 2005 at 05:29:33, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 23, 2005 at 04:58:29, Robert Hollay wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just look at the huge thankses and acknowledgement lists on the end of
>>>>>>Readme.txt of many other original engines (e.g. Baron, Glaurung, Pepito,
>>>>>>Sjeng, Ktulu, Amyan ...) for sharing codes, code snippets, ideas, etc.
>>>>>> Are you considering all them as clones ?!
>>>>>> As far as you mention Fabien Letouzey in your Readme.txt for sharing his ideas
>>>>>>with you, there shouldn't be a problem at all.
>>>>>
>>>>>Exactly - however I would regard all the above mentioned engines as clones. No
>>>>>doubt about it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If you have "no doubt about it" then please support your statement with some
>>>>evidence.  What program(s) did they clone?
>>>>
>>>>-Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>Please take a look into the readme files for yourself.
>>
>>
>>I did and I think you are confused.  A program is not a clone just because the
>>author received help and advice from other programmers.  There isn't a chess
>>program in existence that doesn't borrow some ideas from its predecessors.
>>
>>By your current standards, even Crafty would be considered a clone.
>>
>>-Peter
>
>
>Do you know exactly know how to define clones? Let's see who's the one who's
>confused.

It's impossible to have a reasonable conversation with you.  I asked for
evidence of your claim, and instead of answering my question, you asked me to
look at the readme files.  So I did that and explained why I think your
definition is wrong, and still you can't write a single intelligent word to
support your position.

You are wasting my time.  Goodbye.

-Peter



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