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The elephant in the room is that Elementary is infringing on Apple's copyright by imitating macOS design. Linux has great desktop environments (Unity, KDE, Gnom
by KKKKkkkk1 10y ago
The elephant in the room is that Elementary is infringing on Apple's copyright by imitating macOS design. Linux has great desktop environments (Unity, KDE, Gnome). Elementary's claim to fame is that it has good design (wink). If stealing others' GPL-licensed code is wrong, then so is this.
- gvb 10y agoYou are confusing copyright[1] (covers written works, such as source code) with design patents[2] (covers look and feel). If Elementary is infringing on Apple's patents, that would be wrong. A cursory search of OSX design patents[3] turns up the Dock patent[4]. Whether Elementary infringes the patent is a legal matter (IANAL). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=design+patent+osx&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=design+patent+osx&ie=utf-8&o... [4] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,434,177.PN.&OS=PN/7,434,177&RS=PN/7,434,177 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...: