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Don – Absolutely right, I mis-spoke (wrote?). Ideas cannot be patented, but their expressions in physical form can. However the line can be very thin. Didn't the inventor of the MASER demonstrate in court he had the "idea" of the LASER first; and lay claim to patent rights on certain LASER technologies? I don't recall if he won, but do recall that the report was seriously positive that he could. I don't know anything about the "framitz" that started this thread. I believe it was a complaint about some ones BBS author "stealing" look and feel from another BBS author. Besides a general feeling of inadequacy about writing commercial code on my own; I think hassles like that would probably get me down. – Nelson … (Nothing sucks like success!)