Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...

[BrianG]

http://www.commonsenserc.com/page.ph...po_wiring.html

Look familiar? They could have at least asked...

[Serum]

Cool! i'll send them a small message!

[BrianG]

I actually sent them an email:

Hello,

I was browsing your site when I came upon this page: http://www.commonsenserc.com/page.ph...po_wiring.html

I noticed it was VERY similar to the functionality originally created by me at: http://scriptasylum.com/rc_speed/_lipo.html

The source code driving the diagram is also the same. Now, I don't mind you using this tool but I would have appreciated someone to contact me requesting permission first. Or at the very least, credit of some sort somewhere on the page.

Sincerely,

Brian Gosselin

[Serum]

Their chat-function ROCKS!

[BrianG]

This isn't the first time someone tried to steal something I made. A couple years ago, I had made a type of popup-window that could not be stopped by any popup blocker program out there (used DHTML instead). Someone grabbed the code and was selling it as theirs. Well, I stumbled across it, found it VERy familiar, but the code was gibberish. The amateurs used a really weak form of "encryption" to hide the code, but a couple minutes and I cracked it (was simply ASCII code shifting). I sent them a message, but since they were overseas, could do nothing about it. Poo.

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by Serum

Their chat-function ROCKS!

lol, what did they say? Like I said in my message, I really don't mind, but some credit would have been nice.

[Serum]

serum:

Question
who made that lipo wiring diagram on your site? it appears to be something you guys sure didn't made!

admin:
Which page are you referring to?

Serum:
This one;

Serum:
http://www.commonsenserc.com/page.ph...po_wiring.html


Serum:
It seems to be the product of Brian Gosselin! yet i don't find his name anywhere on your site as a 'thank you'

Serum:
The source code is the same. He made it for the customers of RC-Monster. (or the users of the RC-Monster forum)

admin:
I don't do the website work here. Do you have a tech question?

Serum:
Okay, i understand. No, no tech question. It's just not fair that a person gets no credit for his work. If you want to tell that to the webmaster, or to the person who gave permission to use this diagram. It's not appropriate.

admin:
I will pass the notes of the chat to them.

Serum:
Thanks! Have a great day.

admin:
Your welcome. Call anytime.

[suicideneil]

Cheeky bastards. Well, since Brian is a computer wizz, maybe he could *cough* send a small 'package' to that site which might render it toast?...

And teach me how to by-pass username & password pop-up screens for, um, certain types of sites too.......

EDIT: I was serious about that last bit, and I sent them a nice email too.

[lutach]

Brian,

Show no mercy , put them on the stick . Just joking. Call them up, they should be at least paying you and/or like you said, giving you credit for doing it.

[BrianG]

No no, I wouldn't do that! No need to get nasty. Besides, I would hope their site security is tighter than that. Since it's running PHP, it's probably on a Unix/Linux box. If it was a Windows box...

And it's easy to get by those user/password screens for those "certain sites" - pay for an account.

BTW: Thread moved to the proper place. I have no idea why I started it in the "general electric" area.

[suicideneil]

Ohwell, I'll live with the 30 second sample clips then....

Still, that is a serious bit thieving happening, I hope they apologise and give you the credit you deserve- that whole scriptasylum site is pure gold, a great many people would be lost without it, and for someone to pinch bits of it is just not right; its just not cricket dear boy.

[BrianG]

lol, you need more than 30 second clips?

Yeah, a little blurb at the bottom of the page would be nice. Maybe throw in a little store credit.

[Sammus]

is it possible to make your code unstealable (yeah its a word ).. or at least v.hard to steal?

[BrianG]

Not if it uses client-side code. My site does have the option for server-side scripts (MySQL/PHP/etc) but any change the user make would require trips to the server and have the web server write out the final output. I find performance to be much better to have everything downloaded to the client and use scripts to change any active content. The largest file I use in all pages, library.js, is only 50kB, so client-based code works fine and would almost be a waste of time to make it query a database like this site does.

The most I could do is use a form of encryption scheme, but that is fairly easy to crack. It would only keep the honest thieves honest. It also makes updating the pages a PITA because I'd have to unencode it, make changes, and reencode it. Blah.

[cart213]

Be careful, Brian! They might steal your Motor Selector next and put it on their Motor Wizrd page!

http://www.commonsenserc.com/page.ph...tor-wizard.php

Seriously, though, hopefully they will give credit where it is due on the lipo chart. Your scriptasylum page is the best!!!