Still peaced

Well, I found out that that MrBasic (ah, that's the nick of the guy who plagiarised my FLASHbox) was really using my modified smiley system. Why? Because only my FLASHbox has square smilies and his version has them. Although they are not available for selection, they will appear when one types the correct text.

At the point of writing this, he has already disabled the square smilies in his shoutbox, but little does he know that I downloaded an earlier free version he was distributing... and that one shows the square smilies. I've already uploaded that version to my FLASHbox website. It can be accessed here. Anyone who works with FLASH will know that I won't be able to tamper with the FLASH file unless I have the .fla file, which I won't have (unless I can create one from the FLASH file using a commercial FLASH decompiler which I don't have), since he claims that it is his work.

I confronted him by sending him an email:

You're so despicable... plagiarising my smiley system and letting people download it for free.
Do you know how much time I spent to make the smiley component work because the original free one didn't work well?
Do you know that I drew every one of those square smilies myself?
All my hard work plagiarised and treated as yours.

And you had the cheek to post your link in my FLASHbox.
I do thank you for that though, without which I wouldn't have found out what you have done.
Make one on your own if you're good enough, don't pass off someone else's hard work as your own.

notsniw

And this was his reply:

This shoutbox i made it myself.
I used the SmileyTextField from jolan.org [Insert: Well, Jolan.org has been down for months le]
http://www.flashcomponents.net/ ( search for jolan ).
And I used a simple flash shoutbox to get it work.
All of this is open source. So I don’t understand that your angy.

MrBasic

And then I replied in two separate emails since I was quite angry at his reply:

Well, where did you get the square smilies from?
I drew them...

And Jolan's SmileyTextField has a lot of problems... I spent days debugging it.
Even your smiley layout is the same as mine. Jolan's doesn't look like mine.

Ok, I drew the FLASH version of the square smilies... the original ones were GIFs which I use for my MSN Messenger. Anyway, I'm still waiting for his reply. He proceeded to replace his shoutbox with one without the square smilies appearing (nice move of his) but still having a smiley panel that looks almost the same as mine.

Blatant plagiarism... and he still denies it.