> But now you say it is a search engine for finding code snippets from the internet. You really fail to see how this is a problem? Can’t it be both? If you alr

> But now you say it is a search engine for finding code snippets from the internet. You really fail to see how this is a problem? Can’t it be both? If you already know a specific piece of code well enough that you could find it in a search engine, then it reproduces that code. If not it’s reproducing general code patterns. I don’t see why they can’t both be valid use cases and I don’t see how the latter use case infringes the rights of the Quake coders any more that search engines that already exist. > How would you feel if I could reproduce your entire personal email verbatim just by starting it with "Hi <unique mother's name>" and letting Gmail complete it for me? How would that hold up in your analogy? I think to match what’s happening in the quake example provided I would have had to publish a specific conversation online, and then you would have to start your text quoting my conversation exactly such that it couldn’t match any other published conversation, and then it would provide it as an auto complete. This wouldn’t infringe on my rights any more than if you were to copy my conversation from the internet into an email and send it. It would also be about as useful to you as the above Quake example which is not very.