Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 11:25:30 08/28/04
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On August 28, 2004 at 14:09:45, Gabor Szots wrote: >On August 28, 2004 at 14:05:08, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On August 28, 2004 at 13:55:12, Gabor Szots wrote: >> >>>>Also Paul Hunter and others may get a future version of ElChinito with the >>>>explicite request to disassemble and prove it. >>> >>>If this is necessary with El Chinito, it will also be necesary with all other >>>chess programs. Also, it will be necessary to compare ALL further chess >>>programs with ALL further ones, because anything can be a clone of anything. >>>Do we really want this? >>> >>>Gábor >> >>No, only in this special case with ElChinito. >> >>I also commend chess program authors, commercial or not, to put some disassembly >>paragraph inside the readme and to remove symbols from the executable. >> >>Gerd > >Sorry, my second "further" should read "previous". > >What I meant was that I could take an open source program, modify it, then show >up with it as original. If it is not compared with all relevant known programs, >it may never be revelaed that I have stolen it. > >Gábor Gábor, i guess your point is quadratic increase of this compares. Ok, if we have 10**9 programs that will take some time. I think, that it is part of Paul's science to do some statistical relevant probing of some candidates. He may write programs which look for first hints. Gerd
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