Author: José Carlos
Date: 15:46:25 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 18:33:56, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >Let me just pick up a single point to make a direct try for a debate. > >You said that Nullmove should be allowed to be implemented. Because you wouldn't >understand why someone should have published it before if he wouldn't like it >that it would be copied. > >I have a totally different view. Take a novel writer. He invents a love story, >one that really sucks the reader in. Would you then also expect thst from now on >all novel writers should implement that successful story? I mean is this here >about creativity or what? We are not in mathematics. We are in a creative part >of computer sciences. You can take Nullmove as an idea, but you must invent your >own love story. If you can't then leave it better out and write a suspense >novel. They're not fully comparable, IMO. Novels can't be realeased but in "open source" mode, so the intend of releasing source in a novel is not to teach. I think that a better analogy would be to compare: novel <-> binary writer tricks <-> source code Stephing King wrote a book about his writing tricks, back in the 90's. Are we amateur writers allowed to "clone" his tricks? Of course, what ohter reason would he have to "release his source code" than to teach? >I don't know if that can be taken into computerchess programing. But I just >asked Tord why in hell every programmer must copy the last 33 inventions on the >market? Is that sort of obligation or are we losing our creativity? Please your >comments on that one. Thanks. Evolution. Get the 33 inventions and put a little new one on top of them. Tomorrow, someone could come and put a new tiny invention on top of yours, and in 33 years we could have a tall and beautiful tower of inventions :) José C.
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