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I agree with Daniel on all counts. It will sound desperate. However, a lot
of accusations are inevitably going to be levelled at elementary,
especially as it gets bigger, and a friendly Journal posts on how people
build on others' work, standing on the shoulders of giants, etc etc will
make fending them off easier.

On 23 August 2012 04:19, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Everybody copies everybody. This is how science evolves. That is why I
> hate proprietary software. If you make such a selection for fun and we keep
> it internal, it's cool, but if we post it on the Journal or something, it
> will make us look like an evil company such as Pear.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> With Chrome OS adopting Slingshot design in the stable channel now (
>> http://chrome.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/a-new-apps-list-on-chrome-os.html),
>> Slingshot is definitely going to be considered "Chome OS ripoff!!!11" by
>> many. I think we should set up a page somewhere in elementaryos.org to
>> track (some of the) design decisions of controversial origing we use and
>> show the actual history those design decisions had. That Chrome OS thing
>> also uses the same idea as my True App Center rant from three months
>> earlier (http://shnatsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/true-app-center.html) and
>> GNOME Shell has also picked it up for GNOME 3.6 (
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/08/21/rounding-out-the-3-6-feature-list/
>> ).
>>
>> Contractor is a good example of predating the competition by a
>> significant amount of time. GNOME is also steadily picking up our design
>> decisions, though it's not much of a big deal.
>>
>> Oh, and we should mention prior art about which we weren't aware... for
>> example, Maemo has a great AppMenu in GTK that predated our implementation
>> (by the way, it's designed simply gorgeously; I think we should rip more of
>> it!). Maemo also has a 3x5 menu grid which we found to be optimal... etc.
>>
>> And we create a way for readers to submit info on prior art as well as
>> further evolution of these design decisions. I think this will contribute
>> greatly to our image of open design as well as code.
>>
>> --
>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>> OS architect @ elementary
>>
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