Originally posted by 04jberry
That's a fair point but let me counter by saying,
in a field there is an apple tree and your quite hungry so you walk up to this apple tree and notice that there are only 2 apples on this tree, 1 of them is right at the top of the tree and will be a bit of a challenge to get but the other apple is much lower and you are able to pick it whilst standing on the ground, so which apple would you pick
and just in case you don't understand what I'm saying (the apple story is a metaphor explaining that I'm not going to start from the beginning and look for the offset myself when they are being handed to me on a platter)
But why make and release a tool that does nothing new? One that only copies 3 or 4 tools that came before it, plagiarized and nothing more. This is the primary reason I do not release most stuff and why I groaned your thread. If more people would call people on this behaviour I think many more people would release original work rather than copies of others. Why should I release anything if people such as yourself are just going to copy it to get credit for something they did not do. On the topic of credit, why not give credit where it is due rather than to those that just ripped data from other peoples work? The person that did the original work is already forgotten and credit is given to others, how fair is that?
As for the apple tree analogy, would it not be more fitting to just use a tool that already exists? Is that not on a lower branch?
I think this is the single biggest problem on NGU. I do not wish to discourage people from learning to program but you really should not publish work that contains absolutely zero new content, keep it to yourself. If you had even put a minor new hack into your tool I would give you nothing but praise, but you did not, you only copied others work.
There is a big difference in including publicly known hacks in a tool that introduces something new and making a tool that is made of ONLY publicly known hacks. The latter should NEVER be publicly released. I hope this explains why I groaned your topic.