At 04:46 AM 4/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>I just want to jump in on this thread and mention something that
>happened a long time back. Back when I was in highschool, I was in a
>programming class with a friend (pretty good friends at the time), and
>we had one project, which we had almost the exact same code, line for
>line, but we had not even as much as looked at the others screen. The
>teacher had asked us about it, I suppose due to the surprise on our
>faces, he believed us when we said we didn't copy each others work.
>
>Yeah, it's very possible for two separate individuals with no contact to
>come up with similar works.
>
I think "very possible" is an exaggeration, unless the work in question is
very simple and very obvious. Odds are that your "friend" is a better
actor than you think, and he found a way to copy your work without you
knowing it. If the works are virtually similar, most likely one of the
people in question found a way to make a copy, and that's most likely the
way the case would be decided too. There's no way to prove that two people
"had no contact what-so-ever". (Especially with the internet).
Rick
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