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Do nothing? This isn't worth it. Spend your time/money making an application that isn't so easily duplicated. You said it yourself that you weren't planning to
by anonjon 17y ago
Do nothing? This isn't worth it.
Spend your time/money making an application that isn't so easily duplicated. You said it yourself that you weren't planning to make a mint on this. No point in dealing with the hassle of lawyers, paying the lawyers etc.
If you only had one competitor, it would be possible, but being that you have five competitors, and some of them are free, I'd have to say that the market is saturated and its time to get out anyway.
- Eliezer 17y agoHe's certainly not worth trying to sue. But he's worth reporting to his school, publicly nailing to the wall, and the resulting story posted on one's website to discourage anyone thinking of ripping off future apps, if that can be done. Remember, the expectation of punishment for misdeeds like this is an expensive public good, those who maintain it are social altruists.
- cabalamat 17y agoAgreed. Philip Kirwan -- http://www.philipkirwan.ie/site/index.html http://www.philipkirwan.ie/site/index.html -- is clearly a dodgy person. I certainly wouldn't do business with him.
- pistoriusp 17y agoI don't understand - From the link you provided I can't tell if he's a dodgy person or not? Sure - He have the submitters story, but he hasn't provided us with evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Philip has stolen his database.
- Padraig 17y agoYou can verify this for yourself, but it'll cost you the price of both apps: about $7. 1. Buy them, right click on both apps in your iTunes Apps list and choose 'Reveal in Finder'. 2. Copy both to your desktop. 3. Rename them to .zip and unzip them 4. Click on the app file and choose 'Show Package Contents' 5. Compare dublinbus.db with dublinbus.png2 They are not totally identical, but there is a very significant overlap that cannot be down to chance. Also, his e-mail to me admits that he copied my 'layout'. Though, I agree that his website doesn't him look 'dodgy' by itself.
- cabalamat 17y ago> From the link you provided I can't tell if he's a dodgy person or not? That wasn't my intention. my intention was that when someone Googles his name they'll get lots of pages saying he's a dodgy person.
- nym 17y agoHe overuses absolute positioning. Clearly dodgy.