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Subject: Re: Moderation team statement required.

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 14:26:37 02/24/06

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Hi William,

On February 24, 2006 at 17:21:35, William H Rogers wrote:

> Just for your information and I had worked for a software developer for over
> 15 years the copyright laws simply state "there must be over 10% of the code
> in a program to be able to call it new".

[...]

> Therefore almost every engine out there who claims to be new, isn't but
> simply clones.

Oh, I doubt that. Just when you compare known open source engines you will see
that they do not share any code... okay some i++; or stuff like that, but they
are totally different... I am quite sure that this is almost the same for all
engines around. Those clone-discoverer got quite clever lately... :)

Greets, Thomas



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