Comment by madeofpalk
9 years ago
Ahhh gogs. This project has always rubbed me the wrong way with how much of a blatant steal of Github it is.
Sure, 'copy' the features, and take inspiration from the UI and layout, but so much of gogs looks identical to GitHub that it's nothing but stealing.
The issue of calling IP property.
I mean it's not like someone's breaking into GutHub's server room and stealing equipment.
You want to say it's a breech of copyright, patent or trademark? Maybe.
But then FreeBSD "stole" Unix, Windows stole Mac, Mac stole Xerox, Microsoft stole WordPerfect, and so on.
Isn't that semantics? I'm obviously quite aware there wasn't any physical theft.
My point was around the developers being seemingly okay with ripping off Github's UI.
The thing you're missing is that in this case UI is not something you can usefully make different without harming yourself in the process, due to it being a huge contributor to function beyond form, and "ripping it off" doesn't hurt anyone else as long as you don't actually impersonate them by copying their logos.
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