Comment on Bill McRea Complaints by Cameron Law.
Hi, the programmer son number 1 signing in.
Rights and wrongs don’t cancel themselves out. Al Capone was known in his time for his excellent charity work for the poor, that doesn’t balance out his other later actions. The same principle is applied here.
Ethically taking another developers work and selling it on as his (with no major modifications) without permission is wrong. Taking another developers work and selling it on without permission, and THEN not giving any credit is the programming equivalent of me digging up your grandmothers grave, turning her corpse upside down, and then urinating on it. No matter how much advertisement I do of a product it still doesn’t make it right. I use plenty of open source and commercial programs (Anyone looking to program should really look into Microsoft studio and Notepad++ :D), but that don’t give me the right to steal their work and sell it on as my own.
Not to mention taking the copyrighted content and selling it on as your own is against the law. Plain and simple. If he wanted to make use of the excellent product then he should have contacted my father privately. Thanks to my DRM system, the next version (Which kicks the ass of the previous one) will be available on Clickbank (Which ironically adding Clickbank ads is a feature of the theme). If anyone wants to promote the theme while taking a share of the money after this is set up then they are more then welcome (I will note that unlike Bill’s products, that have a reported refund rate of over 50%, Talian has single figure refund requests after 1000’s of orders.)
As a side note, I’ve been looking at both their hashed attempt at stealing Talian 05, and their previous plugins, and it’s a shamble mess of code. The person who coded it doesn’t deserve to be called a programmer. Their DRM systems are stupidly easy to code around, and the products overall…. the trash I throw out is worth more.
