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Anyone able to explain how Adobe never took legal action against this product? I always thought that the UI was so similar as to be over the line in terms of c
by urbandw311er 6y ago
Anyone able to explain how Adobe never took legal action against this product? I always thought that the UI was so similar as to be over the line in terms of copycat. But then IANAL so perhaps that’s legal.
- wideareanetwork 6y agoCopying look and feel of software was fought out in the courts by Apple and Microsoft a very long time ago. It’s allowed.
- Ciantic 6y agoHow about in Czech Republic, or EU courts? There is always a way for big companies to fight small ones. Of course one way to defend that would be to have the company be US based or with founding US partners.
- rijoja 6y agoUsually by buying them. If not that by hiring 10x the amounts of the coders and copy whatever that did and then launch a massive PR campaign.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoThey could try to bog down photopea in permanent lawsuits, but that would risk some EFF-style organization taking the other side, and now they're fighting an equal opponent, earning a lot of bad PR, and most importantly, they're providing a lot of cheap advertising for the competing product while also making themselves unpopular.
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- busymom0 6y agoThe developer answered similar questions on this reddit AMA: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_alternative_to_photoshop_that_is/e96gzvm/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...