If you think that someone is a "prick" for objecting to their freely given work being stolen and passed off as the work of another for profit (and also with the threatened prospect of it being patented), then the least that I can say about you is that I think you are a perfect example of another rather more anterior area of the human anatomy.

Good luck, rakaz.

I even write OSS for friends web applications and know ful lwell the emotional pain and frustration something like this can cause when trust is broken.

Although this isnt about the money, laws have been broken ..criminal laws and there IS just cause for a civil suit.

It isnt about money it is about punishment, and if authorities refuse to act becasue of a financial limit for this crime, civil litigation with monitary damages as punishment would suffice.

They are all criminals leeches and cowards. Every one of them from Jim to the pakistanis and everyone in between.

They dont care about right and wrong, and as long as they never see a jailcell or are financially ruined they will never stop …. they will just keep creating divisions and new companies to fraudulently develop, market, advertise, and sell their stolen apps laughing all the way to the bank.

Don’t you get it? If this was about money, it would have never been OSS in the first place.

Do you consider the possibility that people do things without the desire for financial gain?

Ant: that was the only browser available on the computer I used to take the screenshots. I haven’t switched back to IE…

If MXS takes the sourcecode to phpAdsNew and creates their own program, but leaves all the copyright notices in and makes their modified source available, in full compliance with the GPL, the financial benfit to you == ZERO.

If MXS strips out all the copyright notices, and does not make the source available, the finacial harm to you == ZERO.

In other words, you’re just being a prick.