Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:05:25 06/17/05
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On June 17, 2005 at 15:43:54, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 17, 2005 at 14:28:28, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On June 17, 2005 at 14:20:34, Cesar Contreras wrote: >> >>>This post it's because i want to know people point of view in this matter. >>> >>>I received some weeks ago some emails that make me aware of some denunciations >>>about my engine stating that it is a clone. Since i can not know who make this >>>denunciation and why they made it, i cannot make an statement on this fact. >>>Maybe something related to fafis case, because it happens just after that case. >>> >>>So in order to stop this from the very beggining i released my source code. I >>>don't hide any big secret, and i'm sure that 99.99% of the code was typed by me. >>>Maybe some lines are taken from code snippets from forums, but are almost >>>nothing. Some ideas are taken from everywhere, but the most of them are taken >>>from papers, thesis, articles and books. >>> >>>Now i think that because that emails where sended to several people of this >>>forum (a public accusation in my understanding) they think that my engine >>>probably could be clone. I see some comments as insinuations against my engine >>>(probably wrong about it). I feel a sensation also that because i was defending >>>Rafael, people think that i was defended the clone cause. >>> >>>So my questions: >>> >>>can source code completly validate an engine as legal? >> >>Depends on what you mean. It should remove any doubt as far as whether the >>engine is a clone or not. There could be a patent violation that all parties >>are unaware of, and so it might (strictly speaking) be illegal. > >I think that the law should simply forbid patents. >The idea that some person may get into trouble because of patent violation that >he even did not know about make me angry and it is simply against justice. > >People should know what is illegal and what is legal. > >I think that patents have negative value because they encourage people to >release nothing(otherwise they may get into trouble of patent violation). > >If many countries decide not to allow patents and also forbid selling or buying >products from countries that allow patents then maybe this economic war can >convince all countries not to allow patents(of course it is not effective if >only few countries do it). I agree about patents, especially for software. To me, a software patent is hardly different from patenting math (which _IS_ illegal). But I will try to obey any law unless I think it is in opposition to divine law.
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