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Hm, does Voyager have his blessing for being so similar to Apollo I wonder?
Does it need it? AFAIK, you can’t copyright a design.
You can’t copyright the underlying idea. You can copyright the specific expression of that idea.
Pretty sure that's exactly what copyright is for, actually
You’re pretty sure, but you are wrong. The closest would be a design patent
Oh. You mean a patent for ... a design. Gotcha
You must first have the patent.
Very true
Pretty sure you're not a lawyer so pretty sure you CAN'T be pretty sure about this
Both novel fonts and computer icons can be covered by design patents. Icons are only covered, however, when they are displayed on a computer screen, thus making them part of an article of manufacture with practical utility. Screen layouts can also be protected with design patents.
Not that it actually matters at all though.
I believe he does not like it
I don’t believe there is fuck-all he can do about it, unless it’s somehow directly lifting code.
Voyager is built from the ground up as a web app, not even possible to directly lift code from Apollo
Thats probably why he hasnt done fuck all, that doesnt mean he has to like it.
What is like the overall idea we're discussing at this point. I'm losing track of the plot here. Christian sad. /story? If soc, yes, I guess he is pretty bummed. I can empathize with him being sad.
With you? I think the overall story is that youre upset he didnt let you have all of his personal belongings for free because he had to shut down his app.
Among the adults? Its mildly unfortunate that christian felt so burned by reddit that he has no interest in lemmy, and its completely understandable that he isnt thrilled that another dev copied his work.
I already said I would have paid whatever the API monthly usage fee if he kept it going even though I'm angry at Reddit. Im kinda glad it played out this way and I will continue to read/write on Lemmy and use Reddit for free alternatively and feel nothing of it
Who gives a shit what you would have paid? He didnt want to build that. He had literally no obligation, desire, or real incentive to do so.
Hey, side note. Did you delete your other comments? Didnt you say I was supposed to do that? Out of embarassment, or something?
And you had one (that I know of so far) forcefully removed by a moderator because you are being combattive and discourteous
Seems like it does not, but it also seems like Christian isn't really taking action against it.
He's a smart guy and he wants to move on. He should do that and people should leave him alone but when he puts himself on the record, its fair game.