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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #15 on: 15 October 2002, 04:35 »
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Originally posted by void main:
Hmmm, I can't seem to get to the picture you linked to. Can't resolve the server name you used. Is there a typo?


It has been fixed  
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #16 on: 15 October 2002, 04:35 »
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Take for instance that extreemly iTunes looking Music player. It's even layed out the same.


Are you talking about XMMS?
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #17 on: 15 October 2002, 04:37 »
No he isnt... it was posted here a while ago. There is a new music player that wanted to look like itunes and be for linux. Well, the people making it were threatened by apples lawyers and are redoing it.
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #18 on: 15 October 2002, 04:39 »
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Originally posted by psyjax:
I dunno, maybe it's so people will be attracted to the similarities between Linux desktops and other more popular OS's, but just because it's a better OS, dosn't justify ripping off someone elses look and feel.



I don't know how long Apple has had that but what is refered to as the "panel" in Gnome has been there from the beginning of Gnome. It doesn't look any different now than it did any other time. I certainly don't believe anyone put it there in the hopes of attracting Mac people. If anything it would have been there to attract Windows people since they do have 97% of the desktop market. But I tend to believe it wasn't put there to "attract" anyone. It was put there because it's functional.

And by the way, Gnome is not a "Linux" desktop. It is a desktop system that runs on many OSs, including Darwin, Solaris, etc.

[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #19 on: 15 October 2002, 04:39 »
Also, you keep forgetting that copying Apple's interface and using extremely competitive pricing is what made Microsoft such a huge successful company.  Maybe Linux will do this and dethrone both Windows and Mac.  It is doubtful, though, as long as Xfree86 stays as slow as it is and GNOME and KDE stay incomplete and unpolished.  And the only "desktop" distro's of Linux (lindows, xandros) are practically closed source.
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #20 on: 15 October 2002, 04:40 »
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Originally posted by Panos:


It has been fixed      


I got it. Yep, looks like Apple copied Gnome.  
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #21 on: 15 October 2002, 04:43 »
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Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
No he isnt... it was posted here a while ago. There is a new music player that wanted to look like itunes and be for linux. Well, the people making it were threatened by apples lawyers and are redoing it.


Yes, another example of Apple bullying people around with their fucking lawyers, just like they did with Microsoft.  Losers.  Apple's new slogan should be "Think different, or we will sue your sorry plagairising copy-cat ass."
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #22 on: 15 October 2002, 04:45 »
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Originally posted by void main:


I got it. Yep, looks like Apple copied Gnome.    


Oh okay then.  
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #23 on: 15 October 2002, 04:49 »
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:


Yes, another example of Apple bullying people around with their fucking lawyers, just like they did with Microsoft.  Losers.  Apple's new slogan should be "Think different, or we will sue your sorry plagairising copy-cat ass."


OOOHHH! Poor Microsoft   :D    :D  What a bad company Apple is, bullying poor old Microsoft around   :D    :D    :D
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #24 on: 15 October 2002, 04:53 »
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:


Yes, another example of Apple bullying people around with their fucking lawyers, just like they did with Microsoft.  Losers.  Apple's new slogan should be "Think different, or we will sue your sorry plagairising copy-cat ass."


As they should. We now know the evil that was brought uppon the world when they let M$ walk all over them in the beginning.

I wasen't reffering speciffically to the Panel in Gnome, or the Dock. You can argue that both of those are decendents of the Apple Menu items. Another APPLE invintion.

I'm reffering to the same metaphor. Everything from folders, windows, icon's etc. It's all inbred between various GUI's, it's getting a bit annoying is all I'm getting at.

I would love to see the open-source community kick the shit out of both Apple and M$ by comeing up with a new aproach to working with a computer. A more "human" Human interface. This is what having an open software community should be about, not emulating other OS's functionality, creating your own NEW ways.

That's my rant.

[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #25 on: 15 October 2002, 04:57 »
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Originally posted by psyjax:

I would love to see the open-source community kick the shit out of both Apple and M$ by comeing up with a new aproach to working with a computer. A more "human" Human interface. This is what having an open software community should be about, not emulating other OS's functionality, creating your own NEW ways.


But what you are complaining about is "looks" not OS functionality. In my opinion (and many would disagree) that UNIX/Linux has always kicked the shit out of both as far as OS level things. I know that "looks" matter to some people but it is something that I could give two shits less about. What I care about is if my OS can get the job done, and do it without raping me blind.

As far as GUIs go, I am just as comfortable with WindowMaker (something that looks absolutely nothing like Windows or MacOS), or Enlightenment, or ... Those GUIs are there. Gnome and KDE have been popular probably because they *do* look like something else and there is a familiarity for people who have used the others. I see nothing wrong with that. You certainly have the choice of switching to a different GUI in UNIX/Linux, unlike other OSs.

[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #26 on: 15 October 2002, 05:01 »
But you see open source just clones stuff.  You know that, I know that.  Hell even Steve Ballmer knows that:

"The Linux client hardly runs any applications except a bunch of shareware stuff that
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #27 on: 15 October 2002, 05:02 »
That's the funniest thing I have ever heard. Ballmer has his facts reversed.
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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #28 on: 15 October 2002, 05:04 »
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Originally posted by void main:


But what you are complaining about is "looks" not OS functionality.


Why would he? OS X combines uniquely both "looks" as well as OS functionality and there is no question about that.

[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: Panos ]

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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
« Reply #29 on: 15 October 2002, 05:04 »
hmm let's reword it a bit:

"The Windows client hardly runs any applications except a bunch of shareware stuff that
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