Author: Antonio Dieguez
Date: 09:20:14 02/16/05
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On February 16, 2005 at 11:37:42, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On February 16, 2005 at 08:27:51, Charles Roberson wrote: > >> >> I agree with Uri. Not everything is publicly known. >> >> I have some secrets in my new program. When I am done with the research on >> them, I may publish them in a journal. But, until then they are not known. >> I've read all of the related articles in the last 30 years of the ICCA >> journals and there is nothing similar in there. I've also scanned the >> net and found nothing like them. > >I don't have any secrets, but if I did I've wondered about the following >scenario: > >I find a new trick that gives my program a nice boost. I figure with some >refinement it may have commercial potential. I enter it in a tournament. It is >alleged to be a clone. Rules state, in such case I show my source to some >committee established by the tournament organizers. I fear that if I do so my >discovery will no longer remain secret. > >What do I do? > >What would you do? I would give the code. Anyway if it is acussed to be a clone, it will be acused to be a clone of a certain other program, and they only need to compare a little both programs. And anyway, most probably they will ask for something like that only if it is probably a clone, not just because. Also in general in order to register a software, if you want to do it, you also have to give the source code, if you don't trust them how you would do it, giving them and almost ilegible copy in paper? :) zodiamoon
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