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Whether he has legal recourse, he can still call people out on it. These Svbtle clones are way beyond "taking inspiration" the way one phone takes inspiration f
by mmahemoff 14y ago
Whether he has legal recourse, he can still call people out on it. These Svbtle clones are way beyond "taking inspiration" the way one phone takes inspiration from another and incrementally improves or differentiates on it.
They're blatantly, outright, misleading. I had no idea it was a clone until now.
Also IANAL but I think it's more likely to be protected by copyright than a patent, which means there's no short-term limit like that.
- georgeorwell 14y agoWhat is the difference between this and GNU reimplementing the standard Unix utilities? Software and hardware cloning has always been at the heart of the tech industry.
- mmahemoff 14y agogeorgeorwell, they didn't copy the manual and logo (or even the implementations). They just built a compatible interface. To a human, a blog with a different theme would still be a compatible interface. It's one thing to clone hardware or software, but another to misrepresent it as being from the same source as the original.
- georgeorwell 14y agoI agree that the "DESIGN BY @DCURTIS" is misrepresentation and I assumed it was part of the Svbtle network too.