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ZDNet: Copying and Innovation: Where Should Open Source Draw the Line?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 1, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the creator of
del.icio.us should be very flattered. ZDNet’s Datapoint notes the
appearance of de.lirio.us which is, for all intents and purposes,
an open source clone of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us.
(If you haven’t tried del.icio.us out yet, I highly recommend it.)
Mallett is also promoting his site as a competitor to
del.icio.us.

“The developer of the clone, Steve Mallett, is being hammered on
the del.icio.us mailing list for copying the site’s look, feel,
features with a similar name, without doing much to differentiate
itself from del.icio.us…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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