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Still not a copyright infringement

Still not a copyright infringement

Posted Aug 22, 2003 19:03 UTC (Fri) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #8483)
In reply to: Still not a copyright infringement by sommere
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

Umm, that algorithm sounds like it will find loads of false positives. Most student assignments are pretty simple, with only one or two obvious ways of deriving a correct solution.


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Still not a copyright infringement

Posted Aug 22, 2003 22:17 UTC (Fri) by sommere (guest, #14168) [Link]

the programs don't expell students automatically :) Yes, it takes a human to use common sense and figgure out if one was actually copied from the other. But it gives you somewhere to start.

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