Comments on: The Essence of Ripping http://www.devlounge.net/strategy/the-essence-of-ripping Design, Develop, and Grow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aj http://www.devlounge.net/strategy/the-essence-of-ripping/comment-page-1#comment-923 aj Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:38:05 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/the-essence-of-ripping#comment-923 Yeah I know. That's how I taught myself design and coding. When I first got started, I played around with things until I had my own results based off other designs, and eventually I picked up on everything. Yeah I know. That’s how I taught myself design and coding. When I first got started, I played around with things until I had my own results based off other designs, and eventually I picked up on everything.

]]> By: joe http://www.devlounge.net/strategy/the-essence-of-ripping/comment-page-1#comment-922 joe Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:29:44 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/the-essence-of-ripping#comment-922 I can see how someone might get confused and think feed icons is some public domain sight OR somehow affiliated with Firefox. And then in turn create a site with the same design to promote (what could be perceived as) the same thing, and not have it seem like a problem. I find that most often sights being ripped are one of two things. 1. extremely unoriginal or 2. extremely popular, and the person is completely clueless (as in the case with the 5,123 give or take rips of 37signals) I'm going to go with 1. in this case and say there was so little design the person probably didn't think it would really be a copyright issue to take it as their own. Still, even if one is inspired by something so simple, how hard is it to add enough personal flair to make it unidentical? I can see how someone might get confused and think feed icons is some public domain sight OR somehow affiliated with Firefox. And then in turn create a site with the same design to promote (what could be perceived as) the same thing, and not have it seem like a problem.

I find that most often sights being ripped are one of two things.

1. extremely unoriginal
or
2. extremely popular, and the person is completely clueless (as in the case with the 5,123 give or take rips of 37signals)

I’m going to go with 1. in this case and say there was so little design the person probably didn’t think it would really be a copyright issue to take it as their own.

Still, even if one is inspired by something so simple, how hard is it to add enough personal flair to make it unidentical?

]]> By: aj http://www.devlounge.net/strategy/the-essence-of-ripping/comment-page-1#comment-919 aj Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:13:34 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/the-essence-of-ripping#comment-919 Since this post, Matt has updated his flickr image comments and he has received apologies from the ripper, as well as the design being removed. Since this post, Matt has updated his flickr image comments and he has received apologies from the ripper, as well as the design being removed.

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