Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 05:20:30 08/22/04
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On August 22, 2004 at 08:05:33, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >I give you a serious hint, Frank. You are a businessman and you already use >ElChinito in combination with one of your products. You cannot pretend to be >innocent as long as no clear "proof" did exist that ElChinito is a clone. If you >are using it however you should be very certain that it's NOT a clone. It all >falls back on you as the businessman, because if it's a clone, the programmers >might be far out of reach for possible recompensations. So you should be a bit >more interested into the details of the question. > >IMO you can't take the opinion that you are sober when you "use" this program as >long as it's not clearly proven that it's a clone. Sorry for that position, but >before you are hirt in your business interests, you should carefully check the >here given position. I hope this helps you. > >A good idea could be that your programmers hat to certify you that their product >is NO clone of Crafty. If then this is proven as a lie, then you have best >chances to be out of troubles. Well said, and if Bob check carefully there are really a lot of others programs that are true clones of crafty and nobody has ever bother to say anything until they becomes too strong; and the owner of commercial programs will always complaint of clone when they see these strong free programs threatening to take their second place in an open tourney. Jorge
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