Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong."

Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by aristus on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @06:13PM (#158338)

Hmm. It's brutal but not "wrong", by which I think the poster means "unfair & anti-competitive".

The point of this platform is to make it easier to write applications. They proved it by cloning the poster child for the last prod-hype-tivity platform, RoR. Life goes on.

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Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by gaika on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @06:42PM (#158358)

Wrong in the sense that is not how you make your platform attractive to developers. What happened to "do not be evil"?

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Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by akkartik on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @07:17PM (#158386)

Really?! If one of the example apps for your platform is a clone of an existing -- and profitable -- service, your platform's suddenly super-attractive to this developer.

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Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by gaika on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @10:34PM (#158492)

This is exactly how Microsoft did business: clone, acquire, or kill competitors that had any success running on their platform.

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Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by nilobject on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @06:52PM (#158366)

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by kirubakaran on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @06:58PM (#158369)

Some might prefer money over flattery :)

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Re:Google clones 37sig: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but c... by gaika on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @10:35PM (#158496)

Oh, that's must be why they took it down.

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