On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Richmond wrote: > 3. Let's suppose, for the sake of argument, I am a brilliant computer program > (that will be my only > joke in this posting, I promise) and I make a complete clone of RunRev > Livecode from scratch: > > virtually looks the same, functions the same, opens Livecode files and runs > them, and so forth, > but is NOT Livecode > > one wonders how near to the wind I would actually be sailing. > > --------------------- > > Or, put it another way, if Shakespeare were alive could he sue the pants off > the producers of 'Westside Story' because they ripped-off 'Romeo and Juliet'?
Or put it yet another way. Since Solomon coined the phrase, "There's nothing new under the sun", shouldn't we all be paying his descendants royalties on every idea we have? Bob _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
