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Yeah, but the appropriate reaction was to talk to anyone at Mozilla before writing a public blog post in a fairly transparent attempt to get some free PR.

by boucher 17y ago

patio11 17y ago
Ahem, I appreciate that Mozilla is on the side of the angels and all, but after you create one of the most notable pieces of software in the world, take eight figures a year from Google for advertising, and zealously protect your own trademarks, you cease to get my "Oh, small company doesn't understand how IP works -- well, time for a quick private chitchat to rectify their understanding" latitude with regards to infringement. P.S. Contrast this with how we collectively reacted when a Microsoft partner ripped off Plurk's design.
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- enneff 17y ago
  Apples and oranges. Plurk's entire UI, code and all, was stolen and launched as a competing product.
  - Zev 17y ago
    And if nothing was said, do you think that Mozilla would have made their own design up or simply continued with the stolen one?
    - chaosprophet 17y ago
      Apparently, they had already ditched the design. [http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-plagiarizing-its-design/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-...]
      - Zev 17y ago
        It could very well be that I'm tired and missing something, but I don't see where it says that in the TC article. And I don't personally run Firefox, so I can't go through the pages of designs on the page linked to in the TC quote to verify this myself.
        chaosprophet 17y ago
        FTA (emphasis mine): Mozilla is now aware of a post by MetaLab that shows a Mozilla developer copying prior design work. The mockups they cite were an early proof of concept created by cut-and-paste, never final designs. Mozilla respects the hard work of all designers and at no time meant to plagiarize original content. The in-progress designs for the Jetpack SDK’s IDE are available here and following initial sign-off on the proof of concept, the IDE was developed entirely independent of MetaLabs’ work.
- anatoly 17y ago
  The Microsoft partner in question actually launched their design.
  - Semiapies 17y ago
    Ie, they got caught later.

Yeah, but the appropriate reaction was to talk to anyone at Mozilla before writing a public blog post in a fairly transparent attempt to get some free PR.

by boucher 17y ago

Yeah, but the appropriate reaction was to talk to anyone at Mozilla before writing a public blog post in a fairly transparent attempt to get some free PR.

patio11 17y ago

Ahem, I appreciate that Mozilla is on the side of the angels and all, but after you create one of the most notable pieces of software in the world, take eight figures a year from Google for advertising, and zealously protect your own trademarks, you cease to get my "Oh, small company doesn't understand how IP works -- well, time for a quick private chitchat to rectify their understanding" latitude with regards to infringement. P.S. Contrast this with how we collectively reacted when a Microsoft partner ripped off Plurk's design.

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enneff 17y ago
Apples and oranges. Plurk's entire UI, code and all, was stolen and launched as a competing product.
- Zev 17y ago
  And if nothing was said, do you think that Mozilla would have made their own design up or simply continued with the stolen one?
  - chaosprophet 17y ago
    Apparently, they had already ditched the design. [http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-plagiarizing-its-design/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-...]
    - Zev 17y ago
      It could very well be that I'm tired and missing something, but I don't see where it says that in the TC article. And I don't personally run Firefox, so I can't go through the pages of designs on the page linked to in the TC quote to verify this myself.
      - chaosprophet 17y ago
        FTA (emphasis mine): Mozilla is now aware of a post by MetaLab that shows a Mozilla developer copying prior design work. The mockups they cite were an early proof of concept created by cut-and-paste, never final designs. Mozilla respects the hard work of all designers and at no time meant to plagiarize original content. The in-progress designs for the Jetpack SDK’s IDE are available here and following initial sign-off on the proof of concept, the IDE was developed entirely independent of MetaLabs’ work.
anatoly 17y ago
The Microsoft partner in question actually launched their design.
- Semiapies 17y ago
  Ie, they got caught later.