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Subject: Re: Deep 9 incident

Author: José Carlos

Date: 05:25:00 03/14/03

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On March 14, 2003 at 06:30:27, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>
>
>>>There are lots of TSCP modifications where the author never gave Tom credit.
>>>That sort of move I credit to sheer ignorance, since you are not going to have a
>>>world beater without a major surgery and a good deal of understanding of how a
>>>chess program should work.
>
>
>Hi Dann,
>
>Cloning weak TSCP and improving it is very different from cloning a "finished"
>giant.

  I'm afraid I disagree. Cloning is cloning, no matter how strong the cloned
program is. Well, I'm speaking from a moral point of view. From a legal point of
view, it might be different in the same sense that it's different to steal 1
euro than to steal 1 million, thought it is debatable in our context.

  José C.


>Tom should then be given due credit, anyway.
>
>/Matthias.



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