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		joshmz on March 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Codename: Obtvse How is it a ripoff to see something and build your own version? It's not like he copied your codebase or logos or anything else. Is a Mercedes E-Series a rip-off of a BMW 5-series? I guess thats why many of you US guys like patents and shit so much. It just makes no effing sense. He created everything from scratch as far as I am able to see from the GH repo. Thats completely fine with me.

willvarfar on March 23, 2012 [–]

Is the gimp a copy of photoshop? Is linux a copy of bsd?

Making a Free replacement or, more awesome, a better product is worthy of the adulation of your peers.

When Microsoft China copied the layout of whatever website it was we all came down on them from our principled pinnacles though, didn't we?

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