When big people steal small guys ideas
I was reading some of the posts on the top three contest by dailyblogtips.com.
One that caught my attention was 3+1 things bloggers should never ever do
- Stealing others content
- Being rude to your commenter
- Posting invalid facts
- Stealing others ideas
The stealing others ideas has a great example of how Adobe aka 500 gorillas in photo editing riped off an idea from a small website ColourLovers.com. Not just the idea but the color set for there own site is very similar.
I have used the Colour lovers website before its fantastic for finding just the right complementary colors for websites. I used it back in 2005 for my first version of Games games and more games theme.
ColourLovers.com has a good post on all the similarities between the two sites.
This kind of thing angers me allot being a little guy. If I build something, I spent 200 hours getting it running and building a community and a big guy like Adobe or Microsoft steals the idea and makes there own version I have no way of competing with a company that can put unlimited man hours in to a project.
Adobe should do one of three things
- Buy ColourLovers.com
- Close the site down
- Give credit or link heavily back to ColourLovers.com
What are your ideas on this?
If a big company steals a little guys project and adds a bunch of features making it “Better” is it right?
Where is gets sticky is if you cant build on other peoples work then there would only be one OS in the world. As far as I know IBM was the first company to build an OS. Windows, Apple’s OS, Linux all came after and I can’t really image a world with out Windows and other compedators.
Arpit Jacob wrote:
well this is not the first time such things have happened it called Unfair competition. Check out how Apple and Co killed a Music Software called Audion http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/. But Adobe’s story is a bit different they played it a bit dirty they made a complete rip-off.
by the way thanks for the visiting my blog.
Posted on 10-Jul-07 at 3:19 am | Permalink
риэлтор wrote:
их больше было О_о
Posted on 16-Nov-08 at 1:44 pm | Permalink
риелтор wrote:
Отличная работа!
Posted on 16-Nov-08 at 2:55 pm | Permalink
Archi wrote:
“этот вне конкуренции”
Posted on 16-Nov-08 at 4:05 pm | Permalink
Дед wrote:
“прочитала с удовольствием”
Posted on 16-Nov-08 at 5:22 pm | Permalink
Сергей С. wrote:
Интересненько=)
Posted on 16-Nov-08 at 6:35 pm | Permalink
Antilamer wrote:
“Классный пост”
Posted on 17-Nov-08 at 11:30 am | Permalink
Олег wrote:
Спасибо! Пригодится…..(-___________-)
Posted on 17-Nov-08 at 4:19 pm | Permalink
Федотов Санчес wrote:
ух ты как крууууууууууутооооооо))
Posted on 17-Nov-08 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
Тимон wrote:
Прикольно))
Posted on 17-Nov-08 at 8:05 pm | Permalink
сэнсэй wrote:
Читаешь это и думаешь….
Posted on 18-Nov-08 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
Сергей Евгеньевич wrote:
Взял себе
Posted on 18-Nov-08 at 7:21 pm | Permalink
Заправщик wrote:
мдяяяя ….. *много думал*….
автору спасибо за пост !!
Posted on 19-Nov-08 at 4:28 am | Permalink
Диалог-К wrote:
“Превосходно”
Posted on 21-Nov-08 at 4:47 pm | Permalink
Mikey Fritz wrote:
“Очень познавательно”
Posted on 21-Nov-08 at 6:53 pm | Permalink