Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs

[Laura Mollett]

> Well, Mr. High & Mighty,

> 

> How dare you try and selfishly claim something that cannot be yours.

...

> If that's

> the way you want to be, then you might as well stop using every bit of

> computer lingo and jargon that you have ever heard, because, you know,

> someone came up with it before you did, and you're just ripping them off.


I believe you missed a sarcasm alert. And might be making this troll's point

... he seems to be claiming that Brandon's intellectual rights on code are

subject to the same kinds of complaints as you're making regarding the term

"foo bar" (something like what someone posted earlier, there's only so many

ways to get the code to add up to 4). Personally, I doubt Brandon would

complain if it wasn't 1) a difficult and unique coding solution and 2)

obvious.


For the curious, you can go here:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html

for a detailed description of the origins of "foo bar". The most common

explanation is that yes, foobar comes from fubar, via being split into "foo"

and "bar" (since "fu" isn't as cool looking as "foo"), and then

re-concatanated.  The jargon file entry above has a different slant on it.

It seems to have originated in or around WWII, and appears to have been

happpily ensconsed in the tech community by the 50's.


And to Brandon: I'd suggest your copyright notice in the comments for the

code itself, like Colin Moock does (if you haven't already been doing that)?

If I personally use someone else's solutions, I leave those notices intact

and then have all the right stuff in the code, though I seldom credit anyone

(even myself) externally (and someone might rather I didn't credit them when

I mess it all up :) And please don't quit because there are a few problem

peoples. The rest of us appreciate your work and help very much.


Thanks,

Laura Mollett


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