> > I had a look at it - it seems inspired by our favorite tool, however the > > fact that it's lacking a lot of the more important/useful > > functionality (for > > example, the calculator) > > It's there, toward the bottom: > http://www.searchtoolbar.com/shortcuts.html
Interesting. I just did a 2+2 in the bar, expecting it to give me 4, and it launched a google search. I'll admit I didn't do much more investigation than that. > There wouldn't be too many strings you could search for in a release build. Depends on how they built it - quite often in release stuff you can find the strings of dialogs etc. buried in the files with a hex editor. It's not really surprising though, given the "xml" files that they install are some strange proprietary format. The presence of the wsdl files (which I didn't investigate much beyond seeing they were there) would indicate that there was development of SOAP stuff, but that could be a bluff - who knows. I think all this will require is for Slashdot to carry this story, and a) their server will melt, and b) if there is a GPL violation, it will be discovered. > IMO, there are just too many coincidences for it to be an original idea, but > I guess it's possible. I think part of it is that Google released all the XML RPC search tools recently, which got people thinking. Not to mention any class/course you take on SOAP mentions web searching as one of the possible benefits. Reasonable doubt in other words. Do I think this person/people were inspired by DQSD? Yes. It looks like they found a bunch of GPL apps that they really liked, and did a knockoff, bundling them all together, and charging money for them. That being said, if they did that, they should be distributing source - in which case they're still entitled to charge anything they want (and their own customers are entitled to turn around and sell/give away the source if they want) In my opinion it's a weakness with GPL - I prefer the Artistic License that perl is (was?) distributed under, mind you in a case like this, it doesn't matter what license you used. Greg ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ DQSD-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
