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I wonder why most of those who copied his website are Indians

by usaphp 12y ago

Kaligule 12y ago
Filterbubbles perhaps? I never saw a website like this before. But he says he was featured a couple of times, so maybe the website was famous on some communities, but seldom seen on others.
- thewarrior 12y ago
  That's not the real reason. There's no shame here in copying even if it's a total ripoff. We copy assignments,lab reports,project work , designs , everything. We get the job done. Originality ? Who gives a shit.
  - galfarragem 12y ago
    Everyone that has intellectual honesty and wants to feel pride of himself. You are just saying that intellectual property worths zero. I wonder if somebody wants to travel somewhere and to make it more easy to accomplish, he steals your car. "Who gives a shit", "he got the job done", he is on his way! You worked your ass off to buy it but that's not important. If everybody would be behaving like this what world would we get? Soon there would be nobody to copy and all the world would be like Asia.
puranjay 12y ago
Indian here. Finding good designers has become the bane of my existence. We don't have a strong design culture. What designers we do have are amateurs fighting for $5/hr projects on Elance. Their work is mostly borrowed and their skills limited to a handful of Photoshop effects and good Google skills. The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to market their services than tacky, borrowed sites. Plus, plagiarism isn't really looked down upon here. It's even the accepted norm in certain places.
- ameen 12y ago
  Well it isn't like we have freedom to explore an idea either. I was a designer in a past life and gave up designing as neither did I want to compete with $5 designers nor did I want to copy a site as most clients insisted. India's startup culture itself is hugely local copies of existing business models. Unless we realize this and address the fundamental issue we will be stuck in Copyland.

I wonder why most of those who copied his website are Indians

by usaphp 12y ago

I wonder why most of those who copied his website are Indians

Filterbubbles perhaps? I never saw a website like this before. But he says he was featured a couple of times, so maybe the website was famous on some communities, but seldom seen on others.

thewarrior 12y ago
That's not the real reason. There's no shame here in copying even if it's a total ripoff. We copy assignments,lab reports,project work , designs , everything. We get the job done. Originality ? Who gives a shit.
- galfarragem 12y ago
  Everyone that has intellectual honesty and wants to feel pride of himself. You are just saying that intellectual property worths zero. I wonder if somebody wants to travel somewhere and to make it more easy to accomplish, he steals your car. "Who gives a shit", "he got the job done", he is on his way! You worked your ass off to buy it but that's not important. If everybody would be behaving like this what world would we get? Soon there would be nobody to copy and all the world would be like Asia.

puranjay 12y ago

Indian here. Finding good designers has become the bane of my existence. We don't have a strong design culture. What designers we do have are amateurs fighting for $5/hr projects on Elance. Their work is mostly borrowed and their skills limited to a handful of Photoshop effects and good Google skills. The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to market their services than tacky, borrowed sites. Plus, plagiarism isn't really looked down upon here. It's even the accepted norm in certain places.

ameen 12y ago
Well it isn't like we have freedom to explore an idea either. I was a designer in a past life and gave up designing as neither did I want to compete with $5 designers nor did I want to copy a site as most clients insisted. India's startup culture itself is hugely local copies of existing business models. Unless we realize this and address the fundamental issue we will be stuck in Copyland.