[geoschmo]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
And the copy would fall under non commerical use. Commerical use would be for another company / person to use the code and sell it for profit...

So copying a game to sell it to make money is commercial use and wrong, but copying the game for personal use to simply avoid paying the purchase price is non-commercial and is ok? That makes no sense to me.

From the perspective of the author of the work what is the difference if another company makes a million copies and sells them without compensating him, or if a million people all make one copy without compensating him. Either way that is one million copies he doesn't get paid for.

As to your other point I will plead ignorance. I have never heard of a company patenting an idea the way you are describing it. In fact to my knokwledge you have to have some sort of diagram to get a patent. How do you diagram an idea?

Geoschmo