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The idealist in me would like to think that this industry would allow a playful homage.
by JamesSwift 12y ago
The idealist in me would like to think that this industry would allow a playful homage.
- cbd1984 12y agoThe problem is, it isn't easy to distinguish between "playful homage" and someone cynically trading on your goodwill with products designed to trick customers. Especially if you have to convince a court to stop that company from doing something which seems identical to what you've already allowed three other companies to do. These things are always so easy to see, so obvious, when you're one person; the moment you have to convince others, things so obvious as to not require elaboration become serious points of contention.
- riffraff 12y agowell but there is a difference between a free project run by unknown people and a for-pay product run by a huge multinational product. E.g. there has been a C3PO project in java for more than a decade.
- quesera 12y agoLucasfilm is Disney now, right? I don't think Disney would know a "playful homage" if they read it in a book of traditional fairy tales.