Re:Apology to 37signals
by mcantelon on Saturday January 28, 2012 @05:55PM
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It's truly shocking to hear DHH use profanity.
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Being a rude person for a long time should not grant rights to be a rude person in the present.
Nice sarcasm. The fact still remains that maybe DHH should take a deep breath and remember back before he was a millionaire. I'm by no means condoning what Curebit has done but unless DHH tried to contact them discreetly and they told him to go hell, I think maybe he could have taken it down a notch before he went roadhouse on these guys.
No public shaming means no disincentive to do the same thing again to some other company.
And given that they also seem to have stolen someone's logo, seems like they're in need of a lesson.
I think what you are trying to do away with is something fundamental to DHH/37 Signals. They think they got to where they are because of who they are, and they've gone on to write several books and blog posts on the matter.
I am personally not a fan of their attitude, but there are a lot of people enabling them.
This is a little beyond the pale and I fail to see why DHH should contact them discreetly. No, I don't like DHH's attitude sometimes but lifting code straight from someone's site is just so brain-dead it defies belief. The vast majority of developers would certainly have a look at other peoples' layouts but lifting code straight is just unreal.
Re:Apology to 37signals
by zerostar07 on Saturday January 28, 2012 @06:47PM
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This will be controversial, but if it were real programming code i would be angry. Since it's just html/css, static stuff, one may say it's not a big deal. In fact that was curebit's first response: they asked if they should keep the code and just add credit. I know it's wrong, but in the broad internet ethics it seems to be considered a certain form of fair use.
"if it were real programming code i would be angry " -> the work of "programmers" is worth plenty, but the work of designers is worth zilch. To be fair, this is also the attitude taken by Curebit.
Back before DHH was a millionaire, he was creating Rails instead of copy-pasting other people's landing pages.