Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:04:24 09/15/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 21:33:23, syed wrote: >I just happened to read at the WinBoard forum that Bionic will not be >participating at this year's Dutch Open since the author of DIEP complained >about clones. Which set me of thinking.....at least the authors of Bionic were >honest enough to declare that they had cloned Crafty to an extent. What if some >other programmers didn't? Would it be possible for the tournament directors to >find out? Is it possible to develop a clone detector application to determine if >a program is a clone of Crafty? .... since Crafty is the only quality engine >with source code for download. > >Arshad Syed I cannot understand how can anyone feel happy cloning other one's program. What's the merit. Even if nobody realizes, you know it! I haven't studied crafty's code yet, but it would be a pity if, for those who clone other one's programs, I could not access crafty's source. I'm sure I'm going to learn a lot from it. The most simple way to avoid clones is that people understand that they don't have anything if they have a clone. José C.
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