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I wonder if Gogs will have to change its ui.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786

• tschellenbach 11y ago
  They should. Github obviously spent countless hours perfecting their UI. Other apps shouldn't be allowed to copy it. (I have no affiliation with Github, other than that I'm a developer and respect the hard work they've put into their product.)
  • Spivak 11y ago
    Does the argument really change if they spent a weekend on the UI?
    • shimon 11y ago
      Yes, because if the design is trivial, or obvious given the problem domain, then the thing being copied doesn't meet the bar for being a creative work.
      • deleted 11y ago
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      • ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
        Good design is obvious because you can reuse many existing ideas. What if you had to redesign tabs, search field, logos bringing you to homepage, scrollbars, buttons, focus, text cursor and all the other things from scratch? If there is no objective way to set the bar you mentioned, we end up with double standard.
  • ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
    It is even worse than copyrighted APIs. Such attitude will allow Microsoft to sue KDE for Windows look-and-feel and LibreOffice for Office look-and-feel, even without patents. Good features and ideas should be copied as widely as possible instead of reinventing the wheel for the sake of difference.
    • dumbguy 11y ago
      Someone needs to pay the bills.
• joeblau 11y ago
  I'm surprised it's not using material design.