As I recall, in the U.S. at least if you do not aggressively protect your IP rights upon discovery of theft -- be it malicious theft or incidental and of innocent intent -- you forfeit them. There is no legal middle ground.
I would have published the evidence of the theft if it had happened to me (and more or less did so on one occasion, on this list, when a much more deliberate theft of my own work was discovered over at easycfm.com (no Pablo had nothing to do with it). It is Brian's decision entirely with respect to what he does with his work, because it is his. That someone else could have come up with something similar is utterly immaterial The fact is they didn't and he did. You guys who are arguing against protection of intellectual property are arguing against protection of your own hard work as well. You should be every bit as aggressive as it serves to protect your own backside. BTW I'm sure this current situation was just a misunderstanding and am glad to see it was resolved amicably. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:266776 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
