While I agree with the idea of a coder not owning an idea, I think that the phrase "ignorance is not an excuse" should be effective...
People who code modifications are obviously of a technical skill allowing them to use the tremendously powerful yet forgotten forum feature: THE ABILITY TO SEARCH
Anyone who has the time to code something surely has the time to make a common courtesy to search a few key phrases about their proposed/coded idea and see if a hack exists for vB2 or vB3 before coding/releasing it for vB3.5...
If the code is generally different or the hacker didn't know, up until this point it has been taken as "fair enough they didn't know"...
As a matter of common courtesy to the original hack author they should at least inform them they have released such a hack and that they seek endorsement for re-releasing/coding the modification for the latest version...
Chris
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