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Originally Posted by pandy
Over the years, we put so much work into it, tweaking it and upgrading it so it would run smoothly and adapt to distance chances better, etc., that it would be difficult to try and start all over and get it to produce the same ratings. And we like the ratings the way they are. It's just one of those things, we created it 25 years ago on Foxpro.
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This is the part I don't understand. An algorithm is an algorithm. Your stuff is proprietary but it can be duplicated. There is nothing magical about Foxpro; all programming languages can read data and crunch numbers. What data is used, and how it's combined and massaged mathematically is what makes it proprietary, not the language used. And the math is rudimentary -- add, subtract, multiply, divide.
