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Subject: Re: question about definition of clones

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:22:40 08/20/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 00:16:02, Cesar Contreras wrote:

>
>It could be great if someone like you, dann, hyatt, fabien , leo and some
>others, i mean trusted people, can elaborate a definition. Since i think it's
>now pretty undefinied.
>
>It could help in next "clone" cases or in tournaments.
>
>The way it is now, people can cross the line without being aware or is afraid to
>furted advance because is afraid of crossing the line.

My opinion is that instead of a law that forbid cloning there should be a law
that force understanding and copying should be done only with a good reason.

Situation when a programmer cannot use faster code than the code that he wrote
inspite of understanding the faster code should not exist.

I understand that it is not the law and even if a programmer find that data
structure of some public chess source(that he understands) is faster than other
structures that he tried he cannot use it.

Uri



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