Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by Dah00n on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @04:50AM
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You are blurring the lines now though so we end up with a discussion of where the red line is at. Intellectual property laws are national,so if a South Korean company copy the design of the iPhone they aren't breaking any US IP law (as of course you cannot break a US law outside the US as a non-US citizen). So novel, recent, and specific doesn't really matter unless we are lawyers. But it still gets HN'ers up in arms.
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by curtainsforus on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:30PM
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Would very many HN'ers get up in arms about someone copying an iphone? It's not like apple needs more profit.
Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by Dah00n on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:22AM
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I guess the only reply I can really give you would be my opinion. So here it is: In my opinion most HN'ers would be up in arms if it were, say, a Chinese company doing something that might possibly maybe be kinda a copy of a design. Though I doubt we would see any arms if it were one of the hundreds of situation where Apple have copied features or design elements. So in short: If a big US company does it it's mostly okay on HN but if a Chinese (or Russian) company does the same it is a bad bad no no. In my opinion.
Not a popular opinion on a mostly US site, I know, but as you can likely guess I'm not American (or Chinese or Russian for that matter).