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Re:I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calli... by cscurmudgeon on Monday February 04, 2013 @03:22PM (#5166832)
It is interesting to see how the community reacts when someone steals their work. There are some good suggestions (e.g. the parent here) like contacting the owners of the offending sites politely.

Quite a few of the other comments seem pretty malicious in nature. Like serving up javascript which behaves mischievously. It doesn't seem to matter to these people if the site owners were victims of bad and lazy designers. (Never mind the fact that the original design is not that original.)

I can't believe that almost the same people then go on to rage and demand, more or less in spirit, everything else be free and open. (academic papers, iOS, music etc) Free, open and being kind are rules which are good to apply to others. Isn't it?

Folks, the above comment is the best way to go about it.

(Pasting an earlier top-level comment of mine as it seems to have been deluged under the anger.)

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Re:I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calli... by pvaldes on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:28PM (#5167622)
>" everything else be free and open."

Not, open source is not the same thing as piracy, or plagiarism... in fact is the opposite thing

Copyright and proper atributtion to the creator of the original work is covered in (all?) open source licenses and it is expected to be guaranteed and clearly stated in all derived works. This is not the case here.

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Re:I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calli... by cscurmudgeon on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:51PM (#5167756)
I was not talking about open source in particular...
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Re:I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calli... by coopdog on Monday February 04, 2013 @04:07PM (#5167140)
I think the difference is that they're making a direct profit from copying, rather than just sharing knowledge.
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Re:I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calli... by cscurmudgeon on Monday February 04, 2013 @04:38PM (#5167325)
I understand that there is a difference. What I have difficulty understanding is the semi-vitriolic hate.
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Re:I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calli... by nikatwork on Monday February 04, 2013 @06:05PM (#5167851)
From a designer's perspective: design has an element of personal "style". It takes a lot of hard work to develop your own aesthetic, which makes it highly frustrating when someone lazily swipes it and passes it off as their own.
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