Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 11:59:38 10/25/99
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On October 25, 1999 at 11:30:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 23, 1999 at 04:08:49, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >[snip] >>The last message >>from me in this forum ! >I hope you do not plan to discontinue posting here. I think your input is >valuable. > >If someone says, "This is not a crafty clone." I think there is nothing wrong >with that (as long as it is true). If someone uses someone else's work, it is >only natural to credit the original author. Truthfully, I suspect that *most* >chess programmers have learned things from crafty. Not surprisingly, I think >that is what is *intended* for those who are interested. The source is public >so that people can avoid reinventing the wheel, and see something that already >works to demonstrate advanced ideas. On the other hand, to clone an algorithm >by understanding what it does and writing some code to do it is a very different >thing than to simply take someone else's work and stamp your name on it. Even >in the best case, that is plagarism, and in the worst case it can be theft. > >I don't see that you have ever done something wrong as far as intellectual >property rights go. You have always acted properly to the best of your >understanding according to the information that you were given. > >Taking someone else's work and claiming it as your own will never advance >anything. If anything, it can have the opposite effect, because it will make >experts cautious about teaching how something works. If we could truly depend >on 100% honesty, everything would be 100% open source. Unfortunately, there are >many persons who do not want to operate in an honest manner. This small >minority causes great problems and that is too bad. >[snip] Hi Dann, not my last message in this forum. I make a mistake and the other chess friends must furthermore live with my bad english. I can understand what you here, Robert and other people wrote. Kind regards Frank
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