Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:28:02 12/30/02
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On December 30, 2002 at 03:17:38, Martin Giepmans wrote: >Yesterday, when I woke up from my (off line) Christmas sleep >and logged on to CCC, the news was everywhere: > > *** Ed reveals his secrets! *** > >Astonishing! > >Basically I agree with what others have said about it. >It is a very nice thing to do, a wonderful Christmas present. > >But there are also other feelings. >Imagine a programmer who has worked for years to improve his >engine. He has discovered many ideas that Ed also discovered, >or similar ones. These ideas gave his engine an edge and >of course he has never revealed them to anyone. > >Then, one day he logges on to CCC and ... >How would this programmer feel? >Not too happy, I guess! > >Martin It is dependent on the size of the similiarity. If part of it is similiar and part is different then he may lose the edge in some ideas but close the gap in other ideas that were not discovered by him but discovered independently by other programmers. Uri
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