Re: FLASH: OT: Adobe Sues Macromedia [OT]

[Sohrab Pirayesh]

you Rob libraries?


you know you can get those books for free, you just have to apply for a

library card.


email me off list if you need instructions


hope that helped

; )

-sohrab


teehee

----- Original Message -----

From: "Paul Willoughby" <

paul_willoughbybeap [dot] co [dot] uk

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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:23 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: OT: Adobe Sues Macromedia [OT]



> *snip*

> Why is it everyone is siding with macromedia for stealing other people's

> ideas and yet everyone out there starts crying when someone uses your

code,

> or your color scheme? Maybe tabbed palettes are ripped off of other ideas

> and made them their own so why can't i steal other people's code and

combine

> it with other people's code and call it my own? I'd never get a job doing

> that, now would I?

> *snip*

>

> Does everyone start crying when someone uses their code? The first thing

> that impressed me when I joined this list was the way that people are open

> and willing to share their code and I haven't heard anyone moaning about

> their stuff being ripped off. In the end this benefits everybody in the

> developers community: the general standard of Flash content on the web

> improves, clients and the public are more impressed and *bingo* developers

> can charge more money!

> Why shouldn't you use other peoples code and mix it with your own? You can

> only do this if you have a good understanding of Flash and the ability to

> apply it in the right way for each situation, so you're still being

> intellectually creative, if not code creative. Personally, I think a lot

of

> parts of the world, including the US and Europe, are far too anal about

> intellectual property. The sooner copyright laws are relaxed the better,

> because then the quality of a product will have to speak for itself,

rather

> than relying on the *screw you cos you don't know how to do this and i'm

not

> going to tell you* factor for its success.

> I do think credit should be given where credits due, like Moock's FPI. But

> you had the brains to take his code, rewrite it and improve it, then why

> not?

> You can't steal an idea. That implies the person you took it from no

longer

> has that idea, which bar brainwashing, is impossible. You can only borrow,

> cut, paste and mix ideas. I think this is how society and culture (and

even

> business) progresses. Draconian copyright laws and the *i'll sue you*

> culture of the US is barring this progress.

> Now I'm off to get pissed and rob a library (that's English for drunk

> American friends)

>

> Paul

>

>

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