techcrunch.com— Microsoft Expo’s project leader, Garry Wiseman, wrote a blog post earlier today criticizing Sina, one of China’s largest search engines, saying “Sina.com steals our design
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Intellectual "property" is a legal fiction...just in the same way that a corporation is a fictitous person. Saying that someone "stole" somebody's idea is like saying they stole your imaginary friend.
"talking about how HE got ripped off by someone who made hundreds of thousands of dollars off his website design in a foreign country that has little respect for copyrights and common decency."You're right, because if those theiving foreign bastards hadn't stolen his design, he'd have learned enough local culture and fostered enough international goodwill to translate his website into Turkitese or whatever the f**k it is they speak in Australia and made ONE MILLION DOLLARS (pinky in mouth).Fact is, most foreign countries who don't care about copyright laws either have low/no capital draw in comparison to countries that do, or have prohibitively high barriers to entry (ever try to hire a good Chinese translator?)
trylleklovnSep 1, 2006
But they are both ugly...
nofxjunkeeSep 1, 2006
Actually it's pretty much par for the course.
osjprSep 2, 2006
You can't own design and color schemes like that. There is a long history of 'fair use' appropriation in design and music.
alwaysmc2Sep 2, 2006
"Ever heard of Altavista.com?"Fine, very popular, whatever. The point is Live.com is not a ripoff of google.com
vguardSep 2, 2006
Intellectual "property" is a legal fiction...just in the same way that a corporation is a fictitous person. Saying that someone "stole" somebody's idea is like saying they stole your imaginary friend.
whiskerthemadSep 2, 2006
"talking about how HE got ripped off by someone who made hundreds of thousands of dollars off his website design in a foreign country that has little respect for copyrights and common decency."You're right, because if those theiving foreign bastards hadn't stolen his design, he'd have learned enough local culture and fostered enough international goodwill to translate his website into Turkitese or whatever the f**k it is they speak in Australia and made ONE MILLION DOLLARS (pinky in mouth).Fact is, most foreign countries who don't care about copyright laws either have low/no capital draw in comparison to countries that do, or have prohibitively high barriers to entry (ever try to hire a good Chinese translator?)
matt_rubinSep 2, 2006
"good artists copy great artists steal" Pirates of Silicon Valley