RE: Plagiary problem

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that you haven't read the rules of the competitions.  They
explicitly forbit plagiarism.  Thus, the plagiarists have broken
the rules of the competition.  The proper thing to do is to inform 
the contest organizers in this case, which is what Prof Chen did.

I don't understand why you would go to the courts first to complain
about a contestant who has broken the contest rules.  Doesn't it
seem more logical to start with the contest organizer?

David


At 10:53 AM 4/27/99 +-200, Pieter Cuijpers wrote:
>This is the plagiary scene as I see it.
>It is not a solution, but I think it is the most logical way out.
>
>1. I write a darn good Go-program. Say "Pagode"
>2. I spread it around the world
>3. I join a contest.
>4. A suspected plagiary occurs and another program joins
>    the contest. Let's call it. "Bad Guy"
>5. Because of sheer bad luck "Bad Guy" wins the contest.
>6. I suspect plagiary and after a while I am able to prove it.
>
>The only thing I can think of is to go to court and start a legal case.
>!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
?!!?
>
>If I win the case we may ask the contest organisation to change the results.
>If I loose that is bad luck.
>If I can't stand the idea I shouldn't have entered the commercial world
anyways.
>
>
>I hope I haven't offended anyone by putting it like this and am prepared
to receive some severe critisism.
>
>As a last cent I do not see what plagiarism has to do with actually
programming Go. 
>I don't think it's a problem that plagiarism is discussed here. But let's
not forget about the real topics this list is about.
>
>Greetz. Pieter (Pagode) Cuijpers
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