> hmm... I guess so. Well, while I see Brian's point, I have to > agree with you Neil: Any one of us could have come up with > these questions without prior knowledge of Brian's questions. > Also, it's obvious that there was no malicious intent, and > that Ben was *not* trying to achieve any sort of monetary > gain from his actions. > > Again, while fully recognizing Brian's rights in this matter, > it just seems a little petty to me. If I would have been in > his shoes, I'd have watched the site and waited to see if Ben > was going to try and make any money from it. Other wise I'd > have considered it flattery, and probably just asked him to > site me as the originator of the questions. But, I understand > that he may not have been able to do that even if he wanted.
Whether Ben intended to make any money or not, or whether he would've made any money or not, is completely irrelevant. The value of Brian's intellectual property - the creation, arrangement, ordering, etc of questions - is degraded in either case. That's how intellectual property works. For example, lets say I want to write a book. So, I look at the NYT bestseller list, and choose Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope". I read it thoroughly, so thoroughly that I can remember it verbatim. Then, I write my own book, which is identical to his, word for word, except for the title. For my book, I choose "The Audacity of a Dope, by Dave Watts". Then, I give away copies. Would you honestly say that it would be petty for Mr. Obama to complain? > I love how he starts to publicly give away his content when > he's got a problem with one of his clients publicly giving > away his content. Anyone else find that a tad strange? No, that seems perfectly sensible to me, since the content was already given away. What does he have to lose? I'd have done the same thing. With all that said, I can understand how Ben might have done this without malicious intent - this is pretty common with proof-of-concept stuff - and would like nothing better than for everyone to put it behind them as soon as they can. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266758 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
