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Are we going to get up in arms about copyright of documentation? If anything its an improvement.
by hayksaakian 14y ago
Are we going to get up in arms about copyright of documentation?
If anything its an improvement.
- beering 14y agoThis isn't even about documentation being covered, but supposed copying of the layout of the documentation. If there was ever a non-story, this is it. Basically, both PayPal and Stripe have text on the left half of the screen, and code on the right half. The right half also have buttons to switch between the different languages for the example.
- wilfra 14y agoThere is no copyright claim here, the article says it's not illegal and they are right. But if MySpace decided tomorrow they wanted to finally catch up to Facebook and the result was a new site that was a near-exact replica of Facebook, naturally people would call them out on that.
- edouard1234567 14y agoI agree with you except for a few things : 1 - We are talking about an api documentation not a website used by 1B members . 2 - The person who called them out works at stripe... 3 - The design we are talking about is far from being very unique to stripe (today), except maybe for the blueprint. If indeed paypal is copying stripe, it would have been more convincing demonstrating this through a set of new features they allegedly copied from stripe. That would have been more convincing and worth writing about.
- pjungwir 14y agoAs a user of both APIs, I'd say that Stripe's documentation is a major competitive advantage.