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They had it coming, stealing code and ideas never ends well.
How do you "steal" an idea, especially from a free software project?
chromatic? Received your new book from Amazon yesterday. :-)
A really nice overview, I'll recommend it and not only for newbies.
(-: I'm ashamed to admit it as a non-native English speaker, but the few pages on Unicode is probably what will be most useful. :-)