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Originally Posted by Geographic2

Things will be alot better around here if we as hackers here had the attitude of sourceforge than the attitude of microsoft...

That's just not gonna happen. Too much ego involved in most cases.

If I post code, I consider it gone and shared. It would be nice to have a credit in the comments if someone uses it, but who see's them anyway?

As for taking a hack cutting it up and making a new idea for your site. I don't think anyone can catch you. But posting it goes back to ego. You want to brag about your code. If hacking a hack gets what you want, keep it. I find this method of "sharing" pitiful, but as pointed out, they write it they own it.

It's an ego trip IMHO to claim ownership of a couple of lines that someone else could duplicate without ever seeing what someone else did. In the case of vB hacks it happens alot.

That brings us to owning an idea. If two folks have the same idea with different code, each should be able to post. That crap that one line of code was the same and you didn't have permission is BULL. Two people can come up with the same query or if() test and never have met in the vb world.

By the comments made so far by those in charge, this poster don't see change coming.

For instance One signature says don't even bother to ask to port my code. I don't see a way to recreate them without it being said it's a copy even if someone starts from scratch recreating one. The mods have final say and there no outside influence to control ego.

EDIT:
May I remind you all that this site is overseen by the same crowd that admits vB is a copy of an idea and now uses attornies to protect this same idea from others coping it. Go figure!