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@eveums:
I do have to admit that you have made some good points here. Since my intention is not to confuse consumers, I took your advice (honestly – no idea why haven’t I done this before…), and put disclaimer in footer of my site, on every page. Just like you suggested. Hope this clears my intentions now.

@firas:
Thanks for the constructive note. My templates are still table-based, and migration to full CSS layout is definitely a must. Nevertheless, without any intention to troll here, I really think that table vs. CSS doesn’t make much difference for 85% of the clients when making decision what article manager to use…

Anyhow, to cut the long story short: WordPress is a blogging tool (and personally, when it comes to those I really prefer MovableType), and my product is full-featured news/article CMS. Definitely a different niche. So any comments regarding “cheap clones” or such are just out of the scope here…

OMG… here we go again…

Ok, I see we still have some unresolved issues, so I’ll try to answer each one respectively.

@podz: Thieves.

I’d appreciate if you somehow back-up those words. Otherwise, please restraint yourself from such qualifications.

@firas: the problem here is not so much that they’ve apparently put their custom front end on wp, complete with misspellings like ‘menagement’, tragically horrid template markup and extortionary price.

Ouch… those are rather harsh words. BTW, where did you see “menagement”?! I must have missed that… can’t see it anywhere… As for the price – I think it’s quite competitive, having in mind that my script is fully proprietary code, with full support.

Now, since I really don’t expect anyone to take my word on this, here’s what I’m willing to do.

I’ll be more than happy to give one FREE license to one of you (personally, I’d like to give it to Firas, since he’s the one who said I “apparently put my front-end on WP”). One and only condition to this is that this person MUST write again here, on this thread, honestly saying if my script is “apparently” front-end, or fully proprietary script that has absolutely every single line of code originally written. Of course, together with apology for the words he said prior to this.

As for the name issue – if I’m not mistaken, Word Press is not trade mark, right? Otherwise – I invite any person representing WordPress team to contact me with request to rename my product, and I’ll gladly pull my listing from HotScipts, register new domain and move on…

If you have any more questions regarding my script, I’d be happy to answer.

Hello again,
Joh, thx for your advice, I appreciate it. This time I registered, do not wish to post as Anonymous.
quote:
“even if phpWordPress would be a “rip-off” of WordPress this would be perfectly legal. WP is GPL-licensed and the GPL does allow that as long as the resulting software is also GPL.”;
Exactly, however in my case it wouldn’t be legal. IF I had ripped wordpress, I’d have to release it as GPL as well, but my script is commercial. Anyhow, I already stated my intention to show source and prove that it is fully proprietary according to all standards.
As for name and similarity issue – couldn’t we say that ALL news / article scripts look the same? I didn’t re-invent the wheel here, just made one quality (in my opinion) website component. As for the name – I thought a lot about it… words WORD and PRESS are very powerful terms in news publishing industry – I don’t see any reason not to take advantage of that. Imagine i.e. elance.com pursuing devlance.com, scriptlance.com, etc. for ripping their name off because of the “lance” term…
@nuclearmoose and macmanx: I still left the topic on my forum opened, although it can do me bad. I have nothing to hide or cheat – if you could accuse me for rip-off over there, then stick to your words and PROVE it there, otherwise be so civilized to apologize. Do you have any special interest in scaring off my potential customers?