Original post:

How many of us are not guilty of 'copying' someone elses code? - everyone, it's called learning!

It is called thieving




Andrewb responds:

Look I am not a coder, but this seems ridiculous - maybe you can explain why copying someone's code is "thieving". I thought all the code here was open and for all our use - to learn and hopefully create eas to make money from. Am I wrong?

If Mr Boatwright took code that was provided free to use on the net, and created a product that can help us all make money - well why should we complain? There are very few profitable eas around, at least that is my experience. So I am glad he did this, for if it makes money, it is a benefit to the community. If the other code was copywrited, well then it could be called "thieving" I guess. But if it was provided for all to use, what is the harm?

The point is Mr Boatwright put it together, and it seems to work. If he damaged the creator of the free code in doing so, then he was wrong. Does the creator have a robot he is attempting to market, or could in the future? If so, why did he provide it free on the web? Not too smart, if that was the case, so I can only assume that it wasn't the case.