Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 09:34:41 08/24/05
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Good critic, but re-think it a bit please. Of course I couldn't give a mathematical formula. I would say that the based on and lack of own creativity is important but of course only visible to the experts. You ask if it's already in direction of cloning if you copy Alpha-Beta. I say yes. But that alone wouldn't allow the verdict clone but it's a beginning. If then the next 14 features are simply added without own creativity then it's cloning. If however something is added of its own THEN the copying from before is just a basing on forefathers which alone isn't leading to clones. But it's leading there if nothing else is invented. Your arguments are a bit unclear to me. You want a formula but you are convinced that there can't be a formula. This is at least a contradiction in itself. You don't address what others here have said: that the copying of an idea with completely new coding wold be allowed and would not allow the reproach of cloning. That is wrong IMO - to give just one example. Finally I find our debates very promising although we haven't found yet the final definition. But I wouldn't dream of that I could find the last word of that debate. Let's better continue step by step.
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