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Re:37 Signals hates competition by tptacek on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @07:26PM (#215443)
Being the founder of OpenDNS makes him a smart guy? Most of the 37Signals products were harder to build and more useful than OpenDNS.
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Re:37 Signals hates competition by axod on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @07:36PM (#215457)
So hard to build that google replicated one in a week? :/
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Re:37 Signals hates competition by briansmith on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @07:39PM (#215462)
It often takes much longer to design something simple than it does to implement it.
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Re:37 Signals hates competition by axod on Thursday June 12, 2008 @04:26AM (#215763)
In some cases, yes I agree. But a chatroom is a pretty proven design. Scrolling output, user list on the right, input bar at the bottom.... and that's pretty much it. I doubt even 37signals would claim they designed that.

It's like IE complainging that firefox also has an address bar at the top, and back/forward/reload buttons.

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Re:37 Signals hates competition by tptacek on Thursday June 12, 2008 @08:54AM (#215876)
If that was the case, why weren't there 100 other applications that looked just like Campfire prior to its release?
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Re:37 Signals hates competition by pchristensen on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @08:08PM (#215490)
Yes, it does.
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