For what?
as that guy said:
Hic Rodas, hic salta.....

Fern

When I have it and IF I have it I will, for sure.
For the time being I am engaged in fierce fight with Grandmaster by Excalibur. The bloody plastic monster is lot stronger than it is supposed to be. Or I became lot weaker that i ever was...
I guess mister Ron nelson took some ideas from spracklen ...

You all can bet I will purchase that thing- A little of childish diversion is an add to the pleasures of chess itself.
Fern

Take note, Bob, That I am NOT talking of a full copy as you putted in your post. That is plagiarism. I am talking of doing what probably you yourself has done, say, take some bits here and there as parts of the collective enterprise science and technology is in order to make something even better ...

Clearly no. Who am I to insult mighty programmers?
Just a writer.
I am just trying to say one thing: there are differences in the nature of the entire thing between a technical device as a program and a book or a quartet. They cannot be compared so easily. It is NOT the same to take a piece of a ...

Something else:
the comparison that some pals here has made with writing books and music is wrong, I think. Both music and books are objects of art and for them applied different rules. The value of a piece of art is its entirety, its total shape as such and NOT,as in technical artifacts, an output ...

....and the degrees of derivation compared with sheer invention are difficult to asses. It is all about that degree. 10% of identical code lines are enough to punish the thing as a robbery? ¿ Perhaps we need 50%?
Or even we could say: it does not matter how many equal lines exist, because the extra ...

I would like to correct here what seems to be my supposed approach to this matter such as I have seen appearing from the view of Bob and Chris. It is an important correction not because it matters if I am am fully understood or not, but because my approach in a sense reflects what is in the soul of ...

I cross-talk in CCC not because I want to go there as a place, but because there are still there lot of people and even friend with which I like to read and talk to.
F

Fermin:
Great idea you have to try something else. At the very least you will entertained trying it instead of changing values of the rook .
If you ever begin the work and you believe a poor amateur can be of some help here and there, let me know.

Fernando