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JCool451
08-13-2003, 02:45 PM
How many here have screwed up a program when altering the source? :)

I just can't help adding my name into programs, every oportunity I get. :)
andysimmons
08-13-2003, 02:55 PM
Heh, serves you right for plagiarism ;)
JCool451
08-13-2003, 04:18 PM
Must be some sort of intellectual property infringement protection. ;)
DMR
08-13-2003, 09:55 PM
Originally posted by andysimmons
Heh, serves you right for plagiarism ;) Tee-Hee

:p
Kaligraphic
08-15-2003, 03:46 AM
I also insert JCool451 into program source. In fact, I once modified the Windows source to crash with the "Blue Screen of JCool451", stating that an error of type JCool451 had occured and that the system would now JCool451.

Okay, maybe not. But that's why you have to understand the source before you change it.
janet loves bill
08-15-2003, 04:40 AM
I do the same thing on wallpaper, when I find something I like and it has some dot com garbage on it, I use gimp to take it off. I don't like spam on my desktop...........!!
andysimmons
08-15-2003, 08:16 AM
Originally posted by janet loves bill
I do the same thing on wallpaper, when I find something I like and it has some dot com garbage on it, I use gimp to take it off. I don't like spam on my desktop...........!! Spam?? I don't think it's spam when you take someone's artwork without paying for it and they SIGN IT. :D
BaVinic
08-15-2003, 08:46 AM
Originally posted by JCool451
How many here have screwed up a program when altering the source? :)

I just can't help adding my name into programs, every oportunity I get. :)

Instead of taking credit for someone elses hard work, why not use that same source code to learn from, and write your programs?

I can't understand why you would publicly post that you are plagiarizing someone elses work?

That's not hacking by the way. it is stealing.

BaVinic
f'lar
08-15-2003, 08:46 PM
He's only plagerising if he claims the work is his own. If he changes the source to make a program display "Welcome, JCool451" instead of just "Welcome" or changes the color of a window to something that will fit his color scheme better, and while he's at it put's his name up because it looks cool and shows off the customizability of linux or something like that, it's perfectly okay, as long as he doesn't say he wrote the entire app. In fact, it's enouraged. It's one of the things that makes open source so great.
JCool451
08-24-2003, 02:41 AM
Originally posted by BaVinic
Instead of taking credit for someone elses hard work, why not use that same source code to learn from, and write your programs?

I can't understand why you would publicly post that you are plagiarizing someone elses work?

That's not hacking by the way. it is stealing.

BaVinic

Actually, that's the exact kind of thing I'm doing. Open Source makes learning C a lot easier. :) I think I mistook a variable for a string, but I'm not sure. I'll try learning what the stuff does before I mess with it, next time.