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Copying the design of Twitter and Facebook. What a great way to make a good first impression and to respect the copyright the GNU project cares so much about. I

by DasIch 11y ago

Copying the design of Twitter and Facebook. What a great way to make a good first impression and to respect the copyright the GNU project cares so much about. I can't imagine a better way to show everyone just how amazing you are. The free software community must be truly happy to have such amazing supporters on their side.

ktRolster 11y ago
Do you understand that GNU got started by copying Unix? You can copy a product without violating copyright, although there have been several court cases on this topic.
- DasIch 11y ago
  Of course you can copy the product as such, that's fine by me and I think even necessary. They've gone far beyond that here though, copying not just the product but significant parts of the design. The Quitter thing looks almost exactly like Twitter. If they'd copied the website of a bank like this, it would be considered phishing. This is well beyond copying an idea or a few design concepts.
  - calgoo 11y ago
    I thought they where just using bootstrap which was created by twitter. I'd say 50% of the web looks like twitter today... EDIT: OK, I take that back... After looking at some of these sites, some have really copied the design waaaay to much.
zanny 11y ago
You can implement ostatus however you like. It just so happens the most popular implementations are just clones of the Facebook / Twitter looks because they are familiar. There are more servers than just these, and most of them have unique UIs.
mxuribe 11y ago
Gnu social is an open platform, so as others have stated you can host your own. And, it allows you to customize the look and feel pretty much without limit; however you wish it to look. I can't explain exactly why the quitter network or the default Gnu social network look the way they do...but my guess would be for new user comfort; sort of to provide a familiar environment. But again, at the end of the day, because gnu social is open source, you can tweak your network to suit your needs.

by DasIch 11y ago

ktRolster 11y ago

Do you understand that GNU got started by copying Unix? You can copy a product without violating copyright, although there have been several court cases on this topic.

DasIch 11y ago
Of course you can copy the product as such, that's fine by me and I think even necessary. They've gone far beyond that here though, copying not just the product but significant parts of the design. The Quitter thing looks almost exactly like Twitter. If they'd copied the website of a bank like this, it would be considered phishing. This is well beyond copying an idea or a few design concepts.
- calgoo 11y ago
  I thought they where just using bootstrap which was created by twitter. I'd say 50% of the web looks like twitter today... EDIT: OK, I take that back... After looking at some of these sites, some have really copied the design waaaay to much.

zanny 11y ago

You can implement ostatus however you like. It just so happens the most popular implementations are just clones of the Facebook / Twitter looks because they are familiar. There are more servers than just these, and most of them have unique UIs.

mxuribe 11y ago

Gnu social is an open platform, so as others have stated you can host your own. And, it allows you to customize the look and feel pretty much without limit; however you wish it to look. I can't explain exactly why the quitter network or the default Gnu social network look the way they do...but my guess would be for new user comfort; sort of to provide a familiar environment. But again, at the end of the day, because gnu social is open source, you can tweak your network to suit your needs.