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Either you support patents or you think it's ok for Google to outright steal the iPhone interface. What if you think they copied the Palm Pilot GUI? Music pub
by jamesbritt 15y ago
Either you support patents or you think it's ok for Google to outright steal the iPhone interface.
What if you think they copied the Palm Pilot GUI?
Music publishing has compulsory licensing, so there's some precedent about how it might work, but music copyrights are nearly as fucked as software patents. In neither case is the root problem addressed.
We need more pirate, less navy.
- runjake 15y ago> What if you think they copied the Palm Pilot GUI? Apple did copy it from the Treo-era PalmOS. A grid of fingertip-sized tappable app icons. And I'm OK with that, because it fosters progress, competition, and iterative improvements of existing technologies. I don't see the big issue with copying user interfaces. You'll either take the idea and improve on it, or make a mockery of it and your product will fail.