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In a similar vain is there any risk to Lemmy or Mastodon? Did any current or former Twitter or Reddit employees contribute to Lemmy, Mastodon or the other open
by LinuxBender 3y ago
In a similar vain is there any risk to Lemmy or Mastodon? Did any current or former Twitter or Reddit employees contribute to Lemmy, Mastodon or the other open source alternatives to Twitter and Reddit? If so would they be a target for big corporations like Twitter and Reddit to pursue?
- paxys 3y agoUnless someone can prove there was proprietary code involved (which there wasn't) none of them are under any threat from anyone.
- Sunspark 3y agoAgreed. Apple lost the lawsuit against Microsoft many decades ago when they tried to stop MS from using GUI elements that were similar to Apple's. You can't copy someone's code, but nobody can stop you from having scrollbars or avatar thumbnails or whatever in your own app.
- kalleboo 3y agoApple only lost the lawsuit against Microsoft because they literally licensed 90% of the GUI design to them. And then in the followup lawsuit, Steve Jobs settled in order to get Microsoft to promise to keep supporting Office on Mac to keep the Mac from dying.