It depends really on your intentions...
This is my opinion anyway.
- If you are only writing the mod because you have seen the other mod and want to make a profit (assuming your selling yours) yes this is bad.
- If you see a mod that is already out there and you think you could do better then no I don't think this is bad.
- If you take an existing mod and base yours off that one then yes this is bad.
- If you are just creating a mod with its own feature set but is just similar in functionality as another then no this isn't bad.
If someone creates a mod, and someone else creates a similar mod completely re-written, is that bad?.
Someone is threatening me to file a DMCA with my host, over a "Recent Activity" Mod, that I rewrote completely. It is a free. The functionality is only similar.
Also over the style of the site, this person and I started the site together, everything was implicitly said to belong to the domain. I owned the domain, then this person, decides to brake up and start a whole new site, he has taken all our users, posts, threads, personal data, everything. I recreated the original site then.
I changed the style background, parchment, header, etc. And he claims the style is his.
What do you suggest?.
1) competition breeds innovation, and ideally a better range of options for the end user
2) agree
3) I guess I should remove my vbulletin 4 subscription importer then as its based off paul m's importer? It depends on the situation
4) Agree
That happens with all software though.1) Valid point and I think it is fine to create a competing product but I still think Etiquette wise you should not explicitly copy features and ideas from another product to make yours...
That happens with all software though.
Take forum software as a case in point.
I Don't know, ideas can be taken from ideas but I mean when they are explicitly copied... For example xenforo is a forum software just like IPB and vBulletin and though they have many features the same, after all they are all forum software, the way that different features look, work and act is what makes them different... if xf where to explicitly copy functionally of another forum software even if it were written from scratch then this would be very bad in my opinion... However having similar features or ideas is what competition is about...
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