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DanBoals · 12-12-2023, 05:02 AM

Not sure why people are upset about this, but let me throw out an example of a similar thing.

Lots of websites quote the DJIA. They give credit to the originator (like Ted does) and they present this number on their website under the fair use guidelines. You can go to Yahoo Finance right now and see the closing number. How is this different?

RDSS is simply displaying a publicly available number. Under the fair use guidelines this is perfectly legal. Do you really think every website that shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average is breaking the law?

Ted is not taking someone else's work and presenting it as his own work. That would be wrong of course. You are allowed as a writer or a website to quote or reference other's works. Howard did this all the time. This is nothing new. In fact, Howard's main gripe with this was when people did not credit him for his work so he tried very hard to make sure he always credited others' works.

Having written software for 30+ years as an employee and more often as a consultant, these kind of issues come up all the time and often a lawyer is consulted; and I am not a lawyer, but it seems like what Ted is doing in RDSS is simply the common practice that is called "fair use".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

I have been buying RDSS from Ted for about a decade now and he is one of the most transparent and ethical businessmen I have every dealt with. I would bet my last wager ever that he would never knowingly break the law with his software and I see no evidence that anything he is doing with RDSS is either illegal or unethical.

12-12-2023, 05:02 AM	#33
DanBoals Grade 1 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 461	Not sure why people are upset about this, but let me throw out an example of a similar thing. Lots of websites quote the DJIA. They give credit to the originator (like Ted does) and they present this number on their website under the fair use guidelines. You can go to Yahoo Finance right now and see the closing number. How is this different? RDSS is simply displaying a publicly available number. Under the fair use guidelines this is perfectly legal. Do you really think every website that shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average is breaking the law? Ted is not taking someone else's work and presenting it as his own work. That would be wrong of course. You are allowed as a writer or a website to quote or reference other's works. Howard did this all the time. This is nothing new. In fact, Howard's main gripe with this was when people did not credit him for his work so he tried very hard to make sure he always credited others' works. Having written software for 30+ years as an employee and more often as a consultant, these kind of issues come up all the time and often a lawyer is consulted; and I am not a lawyer, but it seems like what Ted is doing in RDSS is simply the common practice that is called "fair use". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use I have been buying RDSS from Ted for about a decade now and he is one of the most transparent and ethical businessmen I have every dealt with. I would bet my last wager ever that he would never knowingly break the law with his software and I see no evidence that anything he is doing with RDSS is either illegal or unethical.