strokerace
Banned
You guys are off in so many ways and been watching too many bad 80's shows. First off, sites don't get hacked because they copied and paste code. Trust me, its one thing I look for. 2nd, You need to understand what a website is and what its being used for.
I wasn't going to commnet any more as you are too younge to actually understand what this is about. You are mixing building a website with building an App/Program/CMS. 2 very different things altogether. You are mixing up your projects.
Yes, there are coders who write code, but they don't write code to build a website. Again, these are 2 very different things.
Yes, people write code for stuff like MyBB, but that is not building a website. 2nd, people use that code to make their website. Again, 2 different things. Again, its how 97% of people build websites now. That is what they call copy and paste,using a template etc. Figured you would have clued in with all the references to Wordpress, PHPbb etc. Do businesses use that, yes they do. There thousands of them out there. Maybe you should go to a business website and look at the source code of them, you will see what they actually use.
Now lets say you are business like lets say a bank. They don't hire private coders to build their sites. They are part of a team employed by the banks and work with them daily. The same goes with most big businesses like that. Now Joe blows business website, majority of them are cookie cutter code that is all over the net.
Now lets get into a CMS like PHPbb, MyBB, Vbulletin, all the same code. Its PHP, now body came up with new code for them. They just took the base code, altered it added some different features, removed some functions etc. Some give the code away for free and some require a license to use it. The guys who wrote them, are rarely ever paid. The security breaches and fixes are from contributors for the code. Again, no one is paid to do it.
You can claim all you want that someone wrote something, but its not their code, PHP is not anyones code and can not be copy righted in any way. The only thing they can claim to themselves is the design or layout of the code. The images etc they can. I went through this with a laywer already over some game that I worked on. I have the source code for the game and threated to release it under my name for the work I did on it to fix and the ower refused to pay me after it was done. He threated to sue me. He had no leg to stand on as its written in php. I can use the code any way I like, as long as I changed the name of the game and the images.
So, kick,cry scream or do what ever you want, no one writes new code any more, nor do they do they make anything new. Its just rework of old work.
As for the comment for MyBB, I wrote a CMS at the same time as MyBB came out. Mine wasn't as robust and didn't have all the same features. So back in 2006 after I redid it to use divs and took away the tables, I retired from doing it any more.
How ever, some of the orignals devs on, did a fork of the code and add some new things to it. They are still working on it and not many people know about it. Under the license agreement, I get the source of it and I can use it and alter again. Thats why I like Open Source, its allows users to alter it to their needs.
This is the fork of my code
http://strokerace.gi9.co/
I wasn't going to commnet any more as you are too younge to actually understand what this is about. You are mixing building a website with building an App/Program/CMS. 2 very different things altogether. You are mixing up your projects.
Yes, there are coders who write code, but they don't write code to build a website. Again, these are 2 very different things.
Yes, people write code for stuff like MyBB, but that is not building a website. 2nd, people use that code to make their website. Again, 2 different things. Again, its how 97% of people build websites now. That is what they call copy and paste,using a template etc. Figured you would have clued in with all the references to Wordpress, PHPbb etc. Do businesses use that, yes they do. There thousands of them out there. Maybe you should go to a business website and look at the source code of them, you will see what they actually use.
Now lets say you are business like lets say a bank. They don't hire private coders to build their sites. They are part of a team employed by the banks and work with them daily. The same goes with most big businesses like that. Now Joe blows business website, majority of them are cookie cutter code that is all over the net.
Now lets get into a CMS like PHPbb, MyBB, Vbulletin, all the same code. Its PHP, now body came up with new code for them. They just took the base code, altered it added some different features, removed some functions etc. Some give the code away for free and some require a license to use it. The guys who wrote them, are rarely ever paid. The security breaches and fixes are from contributors for the code. Again, no one is paid to do it.
You can claim all you want that someone wrote something, but its not their code, PHP is not anyones code and can not be copy righted in any way. The only thing they can claim to themselves is the design or layout of the code. The images etc they can. I went through this with a laywer already over some game that I worked on. I have the source code for the game and threated to release it under my name for the work I did on it to fix and the ower refused to pay me after it was done. He threated to sue me. He had no leg to stand on as its written in php. I can use the code any way I like, as long as I changed the name of the game and the images.
So, kick,cry scream or do what ever you want, no one writes new code any more, nor do they do they make anything new. Its just rework of old work.
As for the comment for MyBB, I wrote a CMS at the same time as MyBB came out. Mine wasn't as robust and didn't have all the same features. So back in 2006 after I redid it to use divs and took away the tables, I retired from doing it any more.
How ever, some of the orignals devs on, did a fork of the code and add some new things to it. They are still working on it and not many people know about it. Under the license agreement, I get the source of it and I can use it and alter again. Thats why I like Open Source, its allows users to alter it to their needs.
This is the fork of my code
http://strokerace.gi9.co/
