>We're proud of them, and we want to show them off -- aesthetic parallels to OS X or not. This is completely understandable. I appreciate taking pride in your

>We're proud of them, and we want to show them off -- aesthetic parallels to OS X or not. This is completely understandable. I appreciate taking pride in your work,—we all do—but it's detrimental to adoption. You're sacrificing mindshare because of fondness for your work. It boils down to a straightforward question: Are you more committed to creating a beautiful design (regardless of similarities to OS X) or are you more committed to bringing elementary to users? If you're more dedicated to the former, I can respect that 100%, but it's important that this is the question you ask yourselves. edit: clarity