Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:27:13 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft gives up trying and starts blatantly copying?
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>>| John Gruber just made quite an interesting post/find on his site
>>| about how Microsoft has straight copied Apple?s Workgroup
>>| Manager Icon.
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http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/11/microsoft-gives-up-trying-and-starts-blatantly-copying/
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> How, precisely, does anyone, other than Apple and Microsoft, know where
> the
> icon came from? Perhaps they were both purchased from some commercial
> Icon vendor, like IconFactory?
>
> And again, I find it highly ironic that of all people, *YOU* criticize
> people for copying images and using them on their own web site.
>
> Have we forgotten your blatent copyright infringement?
I do that all the time for my own personal web sites. Because I can't draw,
so I look around to find nice pictures and use those.
Hardly a hanging offence I would have thought.
But also I think it unlikely that MS actually stole an icon, they spend more
time on the visuals than any other part so will not have missed the icon
mentioned here. It has to have been agreed. And why not, we all use icons
that look like folders, icons with little pics of the world in them and
many other descriptive icons. There's only so many ways you can describe a
volume control in picture form, a loud speaker springs to mind.
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