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It has happened with OS X by them taking a popular 3rd party utility/app and integrating the idea/look/feel directly with no attribution Citation?
by ghurlman 16y ago
It has happened with OS X by them taking a popular 3rd party utility/app and integrating the idea/look/feel directly with no attribution
Citation?
- glhaynes 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson
- moxiemk1 16y agoThis seems to be someone making an OSX version of Apple's already existing Sherlock program? I'm not really sure how Sherlock 3 was copying Watson, since it was pretty clearly an evolution of Sherlock 2.
- marchdown 16y agoKonfabulator comes to mind: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2005/04/macosx-10-4.ars/17 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2005/04/macosx-10-4.ars...
- protomyth 16y agoThis subscription model I have a problem with, but.... Ignoring the original Mac OS (and all the OS version up to 9) is the only way to say they ripped off Konfabulator. Desk Accessories finally make an appearance in OS X after missing since OS 9 and it is a ripoff of Konfabulator?
- glhaynes 16y agoCan't believe this debate is happening again in 2011. Serious deja vu. [edit upon downvote: I don't mean it shouldn't happen, I just thought it was funny to suddenly be transported back to that time; hadn't even thought of the app nor the arguments around it in years.]
- protomyth 16y agoI just get sick of people trotting this one out when it was history ignoring in the first place. It also ignores the whole Yahoo thing, but I digress. Its like during a really in-depth boxing debate trotting out the boxer's W-L record when wearing blue shorts.... I could be in a bad mood just because this foolish policy probably destroyed any hope of micro-payments on iOS devices.