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well, the internet is as the biggest unofficial open source project ever, just because you can do view-source on ever website there is. copying parts (even big
by franze 14y ago
well, the internet is as the biggest unofficial open source project ever, just because you can do view-source on ever website there is. copying parts (even big parts) of a site you like is not only common practice, but also great for innovation. just imagine how the web would look like if tim berners-lee would have chosen a flash like technology for the web? (my guess: we would not have the internet, we would live in the microsoftnet (as they are great in getting market share in closed source economies))
yes, they could have worked a little harder to give their site a little bit more "originality", but other than that, it is the internet way.
i have cloned (parts of) hundreds of websites, any my websites (and parts of it) were cloned even more often, even before github.
be flattered, move on (with your great magazine).
- oliwarner 14y agoYou don't seem to see the distinction between being able to see the source and being legally able to reuse that source. Copyright still applies.
- franze 14y agoi see a distinction, but a too strict interpretation of copyright is bad for the web and innovation. i'm glad there (still) is a view-source option in every browser, and i'm glad people still use it. view-source is how i started into webdevelopement in the nineties (remember, there was no github), and i'm glad people still use it (i do).
- nitrogen 14y agoI agree that View Source is good, and stumbling on that option is how I started to learn HTML as well. What people are saying here is that View Source->Copy->Paste->Profit is bad. View Source->Learn->Reinvent->Profit is fine.