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Re:Quora engineers accused of vandalizing a clone’s website by mgrouchy on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @03:32PM (#2333507)
I certainly don't think the Quora Engineers were right to vandalize the clones website in this case.

I'm all about people making Q/A websites and releasing products that are clones of other products. Ideally this kind of competition can make the original product better.

That being said, I find making a clone of someones product and then releasing said product at least in this sense, distasteful. Seeing that it has such similarity to the original that if you weren't familiar with the original you probably couldn't tell the difference.

Re:Quora engineers accused of vandalizing a clone’s website by joshu on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @04:22PM (#2333714)
Design clones are super lame.
Re:Quora engineers accused of vandalizing a clone’s website by hackinthebochs on Thursday March 17, 2011 @11:13AM (#2336360)
Why? What separates design clone vs functionality clone, making one legitimate and the other distasteful?