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I'm the author of the Excel shareware "Edwin's Power Tools"

Recently, I saw another shareware called "Excel PowerPlus Tools 1.0.5" by Bandwood software

I found that that shareware is SUBSTANTIAL INDENTICAL to mine, in terms of functionality, and more surprisingly, the SOURCE CODE and USERFORM DESIGN!

How indentical??
1) Macro code are identical LINE BY LIN
2) Order of macros are identica
3) A lot of variable names are identica
4) The extensive use of numbers like "-4142", "-4131", "-4152" instead of the Excel VB "English" constants are identical
5) The names of a lot of controls on UserFoms are identica
6) When my userforms have controls overlapping each other, the same number of controls on the userforms of that shareware are overlapping each other also
7) A lot of the function names are identical
8) I got a lot of "Edwin's Power Tools" in my message boxes. Some messaage boxes of that shareware also has "Bandwood's Power Tools" even though the actual name of it is called ""Excel PowerPlus Tools"

Even worse, I called the author of that shareware (who is in Australia), and he refused to admit that he USED by software code and adapted it, and for a profit, and without my consent


 
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