Comment by madeofpalk

9 years ago

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.

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Mithaldu  9 years ago

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.

  • madeofpalk  9 years ago

    Stash, Bitbucket and Gitlab all tend to disagree that theres only one way to build a UI for git websites.

    I agree that no one is being harmed, but personally I just thing it's shameful.