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well by original I mean, you wrote everything yourself. Sure you may have consulted other people for ideas, code samples, but you didn't just go to a site you l

• alttab 17y ago
  I voted yes for open source web site design, but those days are behind me. I think he could have been referring to the copy-and-paste project mentality, where you learn just enough to copy and paste chunks of code and alter it until it works.
• ismarc 17y ago
  In trying to make it sound "less bad" you've confused what the real question is. It should have been "Have you every exploited the fact that something is publicly available for your own gain?" Take any design pattern (code design pattern). Now, there will be several variants on how to code it, but there will be millions of instances of nearly identical implementations, at least half of which started as a copy-paste (or type it nearly exactly the same from repetition, or copy paste from an earlier project, or reuse a file). To "borrow" in the term you describe, I could look at a site, and code something myself that looks exactly the same way, and it not be considered borrowing. However, it's still "taking" it. Think of it like this...every single piece of code can be reduced down to a specialized chip that performs the same function. Did you create a chip that did exactly the same thing intentionally, or did you create a chip that did something different, or did you plug in their chip?