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There are two aspects here:

One is the visual design, and even the author agrees that it's probably too similar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744356

The other is the idea/concept. Creating open-source versions of unique ideas is nothing new and I doubt you'll see much sympathy on this front.



I'm wondering how is this very different from MS Office vs. LibreOffice...

Granted, latest incarnations of MS's products are a bit different with the (crappy) ribbon and all, but LO is quite similar to previous versions of Office.

And I'm talking both about UI, design and functionality. Think Excel/Calc functions, for example.


Right, and as Mr. Curtis said, the author copied his design work. Mr. Curtis isn't crying fowl that someone built an open-source blog engine.




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