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Originally posted by Dawgy
so, theyre using a script that they didnt know was a ripoff of chokers... but does that make them criminals worthy of being slandered? does ignorance = innocence?
tough call. kindof goes back to the old cliche... if u buy a stolen car, are you guilty of theft...
sux he banned you, his traffic is great & he's a kickass guy. maybe you two can work something out. maybe he'll work something out with anyone who uses that stolen script.
i think choker should go after the thief, not his unwilling customers... make the customers a deal on TTT or somethin
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I'm just going to put my two cents in because I'll probably be dragged in to it anyhow.
Here's the short story:
Icefire wrote a fix for Choker's TTT. Choker got all upset and banned Icefire from using any of his programs. So Icefire rewrote the TTT script. A modification of the TTT code would be against the license, but since the code has been rewritten...it's legit. These's a thin line that he was treading, but he was legal. Being his partner at the time on another venture, I checked on the legality of the script here in the states, while he did the same in his home country and the country he lives in. It was good to go, so he released it.
Choker doesn't go after Icefire, because he can't. While you or Choker or even I might not agree with the way Icefire went about his business...he didn't do anything illegal. Choker knows this...
So he goes after those he can. He attacks and slandors me and blacklists trades in the FindTrades database. Not once has he had the balls to come to me for my side of the story. He still things I'm some master programmer that hatched this plan and had someone else do the work.
That's it in a nutshell. The script is not a stolen or modified TTT. It's a rewrite. It's not too tough to see the differences...and I'm not even a programmer.
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Originally posted by Rivux
re·write
v. re·wrote, (-rt) re·writ·ten, (-rtn) re·writ·ing, re·writes
v. tr.
To write again, especially in a different or improved form
mod·i·fi·ca·tion
n.
A small alteration, adjustment, or limitation
When it comes to coding, modifcation is illegal unless the license allows for it. Re-writing is perfectly legal regardless of what the license says. Just because someone saw your script, found some bugs then wrote a new script with the same features plus some improvements doesn't make what he did illegal. There is nothing in your script or anyones traffic trading script that they can patent which means you can't sue him for using the same ideas or features.
Does it suck, ya for the most part. Because now someone has a better script then yours, which is never good for business. But it's been mentioned a dozen times before, start listening to your users, and make steady improvements, eventually the best program will win out. It is a business and regardless of whether you like what happened, the code is different enough that you are going to lose, so work on your script and forget about them.
Side note: I think traffic trading scripts are garbage and just fuck around the user, but I guess that is neither here nor there.
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