
He found about the Pricelessware Huntersoft Alert page reporting that UDI is a ripped version of UKD.
He says that Huntersoft (which had an article about him back in 2002, I will try to find that) stated my program was part of a Linux project and was Open Source. Why a 3 credit bureaus L.A. windows only program would be part of a linux project I have no clue. Looking at their webpage I don't see any references to any projects they themselves run.
I tried to contact them but they 3 credit bureaus L.A. have a spam filter that blocks my 3 credit bureaus L.A. email server and my isp's netblock. I 3 credit bureaus L.A. was unable to even contact the people who created the blackhole list. According to the emails Huntersoft claims the program is GPL not Open Source. Either way my program is neither GPL nor Open Source, at least 3 credit bureaus L.A. currently. But if the program were GPL you would find that there are several requirements you need to do, some of them quoted below: To sum up, if you 3 credit bureaus L.A. want to change a GPL program you must provided complete source code with your program, including pointing out all changes you have done to it's source code, keep all 3 credit bureaus L.A. copyright notices. So even if my program were under GPL his program would be in violation of that license too. Continuing with the article it moves on to how lots 3 credit bureaus L.A. of programs take ideas from others. website for free credit report It 3 credit bureaus L.A. uses the examples of Windows taking from Mac (who took it from Xerox), and Internet Explorer from Netscape Navigator (who took it from 3 credit bureaus L.A. Mosaic). They didn't just take the basic idea of a "program that looks at the device manager and look up devices in a list to know what it 3 credit bureaus L.A. is" but instead took the complete program, removed 3 credit bureaus L.A. my name and put in his and 3 credit bureaus L.A. did the same with my webpage. This would be the same as if Microsoft did 3 credit bureaus L.A. this: And after Netscape complained they created a new improved version (and hid a trojan in it too) UKD 1.2 and UDI 1.60: UKD 1.2 Main Window: UDI 3.01 Main Window: If Huntersoft used the basic idea I would have no problems with it. There are lots of programs that look up devices in some sort of list including windows itself (using .inf's as lists). check credit online free The original UDI is 3 credit bureaus L.A. identical to mine, even the same bugs.
After that version he did other stuff like put in a different title bar, an odd waiting bar and different menus in attempt to call if different. Huntersoft didn't 3 credit bureaus L.A. copy concepts, they ripped me off. The article then moves on to a story about some schoolmates that started a software company creating Video Frequency Broadcasting software. This company went out of business due to lack of market. Later on this person found out that another company wrote a program that was 3 credit bureaus L.A. very much the same as the program they created. He learned that one of his 3 credit bureaus L.A. friends works at that company. Before the original 3 credit bureaus L.A. company disbanded they all signed a "security agreement" (security agreement?
I assume it's some cultural/legal differences there). The new company states that they did not break the agreement because the code is now in VC++ (Microsoft Visual C++) instead of (Borland) Delphi.
To me it sounds like they wrote up a bad agreement. Just because someone translates a 3 credit bureaus L.A. book from English to French doesn't mean 3 credit bureaus L.A. you lose the copyright on it.
It then moves on to how copycat software is very common in China and that this is helping the software become better. As I know very well how much better UDI is after trying to wipe out Windows. credit reports It also goes on to talk with a lawyer about copyright law. He says that if the program has a very original design it might be protected as fine arts but otherwise nothing. To me that means they have no copyright laws there, I'm not surprised.
I use free software all the time, a lot of them GPL or 3 credit bureaus L.A. other Open Source projects. I really did consider making my program Open Source, that'3 credit bureaus L.A. s one reason I released the source code in the first place. But problems like this really put a damper on it.
I 3 credit bureaus L.A. wonder would someone like RMS would fight so much for Free (as in freedom) Software if someone else took his original printer software or emacs and claimed it was theirs.
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