Comments on: The issue of software cloning http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/03/28/swcloning/ a community for independent software developers Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:14:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: texas holdem http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/03/28/swcloning/#comment-3363 Tue, 31 May 2005 16:58:47 +0000 http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/03/28/swcloning/#comment-3363 <strong>texas holdem</strong> texas holdem Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. texas holdem

texas holdem Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

]]> by: GBGames http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/03/28/swcloning/#comment-1715 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:48:53 +0000 http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/03/28/swcloning/#comment-1715 Of course, to reverse the issue, is it wrong to try to mimic functionality in a product? For example, if you don't have Microsoft Office, how can you send out your resume to businesses that require a .doc format? OpenOffice.org or any number of editors can help in this regard, and they can work on platforms that Microsoft will not support. Is this an example of cloning? OOo Writer technically has a few interface differences from Word, but what if they were even more similar? Would that be cloning then? At one point is cloning considered "a rip off of an original" and when is it considered appropriate? As the author said, "cloning" is a bad term that doesn't really describe what is happening very clearly. Cloning, reimplimentation, etc. When does someone have the ability to cry foul that someone has cloned their work, and when does someone have the ability to claim the right to actually "clone" someone's work? Of course, to reverse the issue, is it wrong to try to mimic functionality in a product? For example, if you don’t have Microsoft Office, how can you send out your resume to businesses that require a .doc format? OpenOffice.org or any number of editors can help in this regard, and they can work on platforms that Microsoft will not support. Is this an example of cloning? OOo Writer technically has a few interface differences from Word, but what if they were even more similar? Would that be cloning then?

At one point is cloning considered “a rip off of an original” and when is it considered appropriate?

As the author said, “cloning” is a bad term that doesn’t really describe what is happening very clearly. Cloning, reimplimentation, etc. When does someone have the ability to cry foul that someone has cloned their work, and when does someone have the ability to claim the right to actually “clone” someone’s work?

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