Let's just say for the sake of conversation that ethics have been stretched pretty thin... Case in point, it wasn't until the freeware developer was called on the fact that he even used identical names for the themes for his initial release that forced the change for v0.3. He even admitted to having been "greatly inspired" (his words) by John's work. IMO, it's a little too similar to be considered anything but a shameless copy. That said, I'm not a copyright or patent attorney. EDIT: I have MaxxFX and took a look at BLU-fx (at least he changed the case of "FX") and still find MaxxFX very much worth the money.