Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:32:51 02/16/05
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On February 16, 2005 at 12:11:43, John Merlino wrote: >On February 16, 2005 at 05:19:03, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On February 15, 2005 at 19:05:35, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>But let's say that an author took TSCP, modified it to some degree and gave Tom >>>credit. Even though you do not call that a clone... >> >>That is absolutely a clone, but it's not a bad thing to be a clone in this case. >>I don't think defining the word "clone" is the real issue, as it does not have >>to imply negativity. > >Not saying that you're wrong about that, but you're the first person I've ever >heard say that the word "clone" isn't necessarily bad. > >jm I doubt I'm the first person you've heard express this idea. There are at least 349 Linux clones. At least 348 of these are clones. You can call them 'distributions' or 'clones', but either word implies that they borrowed source code in this case. However, a clone doesn't even have to imply borrowed source code. There are probably 10,000 Tetris clones, and probably zero of them borrowed source code from the original. In Linux there are clones for virtually any Windows program (ex. Open Office/MS Office, Gaim/AOL Instant Messenger, GIMP/Adobe Photoshop, KDevelop/MS Visual Studio, and so on).
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