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How is Slack not suing Uber for uChat? The images on the link look like an exact copy.
by siddarthd2919 7y ago
How is Slack not suing Uber for uChat? The images on the link look like an exact copy.
- Meekro 7y agoCheck out some screenshots of Discord, that basically looks like "Slack with a dark theme."
- redwall_hp 7y agoAnd they all look like any generic IRC client with fatter margins and some other 2010+ fluff.
- bagels 7y agoWould need to sue Discord too.
- a13n 7y agoOn what grounds would they sue? Not only is it completely legal to copy a competitor's design (in most cases), Uber isn't selling this to other companies.
- 8ytecoder 7y agoI don’t understand why the above user is getting downvoted to oblivion by people who don’t understand legalities. Trade dress[1] is a form of intellectual property. This is what prevents a company from copying a competitor down to the pixel. Apple and Samsung fought an infamous and long legal battle over this. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress [2] https://revisionlegal.com/trademarks/lessons-trademarking-trade-dress-apple-vs-samsung/ https://revisionlegal.com/trademarks/lessons-trademarking-tr...
- infinite8s 7y agoIt only matters for product you sell (hence the reference to consumer confusion). Ubers chat sounds like it's solely for internal use.
- spiznnx 7y agouChat is a fork of Mattermost, which looks like an exact copy too. https://mattermost.com/ https://mattermost.com/
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoConstrained solution space > all chat apps look the same. Except Snapchat, I still can't work out what that's about.
- FDSGSG 7y agoYou think Slack came up with that design? Hah.
- tozeur 7y agoThe post says they used an open source chat core called Mattermost.
- yitchelle 7y agoOnly companies with mega deep pockets (to pay the real winners ie the lawyers) would engage in these type of tom foolery. I am talking about Samsung and Apple here..