PLEASE REMOVE THIS IMMEDIATELY: was Re: VS .NET review

Daniel Haberkorn dhaberkorn at gmx.de
Thu Nov 15 08:42:02 UTC 2001


Hi,

sorry if i made some troubles with my stuff. 

But how can we collect features and cool stuff from other apps? Only by text? 
Or should we take such stuff to another website?

cheers,
	Daniel

> thanks. I am just a bit worried about these things. Maybe this was a
> bit paranoid but anyway.
>
> While I dont think that KDevelop is a competition for Studio, having
> this on the website makes you an easy target for a nasty copyright
> infringement lawsuit. All they need to say is: "Look these guys rebuild
> our IDE from screenshots that they took from our project, they even
> have it on their website". Then they will sue just like Apple did over
> Aqua themes and that's the end of this application.
>
> Roland
>
> --- Sandy Meier <smeier at kdevelop.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 14. November 2001 19:58, you wrote:
> > > Aehem,...
> > > this was a bad idea in fact it was a very bad idea.
> > >
> > > This can get us in a lot of trouble, please remove the screenshots
> > > immediately.
> >
> > ok, I removed it.
> >
> > >I know a little bit about copyright law from my wife who
> > > is a lawyer and that's what this comes down to. Posting screenshots
> >
> > of
> >
> > > a competitors application to a public site == not a good idea.
> > > This can give Microsoft a reason to shut down our entire project,
> > > believe me, I know what I am talking about.
> >
> > Do you really think that KDevelop is a competitor for Windows IDE's?
> > I always
> > thought that the target groups are totally different. Visual Studio
> > doesn't
> > run under Unix and KDevelop doesn't under Windows.
> >
> > BTW: the review by Daniel was nothing more than an advertisement for
> > Visual
> > Studio. :-)
> >
> > Ciao!
> > Sandy
> >
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