funjjhcc's comments

On: Gitea – A community-managed fork of Gogs

[funjjhcc]

The issue of calling IP property.

I mean it's not like someone's breaking into GutHub's server room and stealing equipment.

You want to say it's a breech of copyright, patent or trademark? Maybe.

But then FreeBSD "stole" Unix, Windows stole Mac, Mac stole Xerox, Microsoft stole WordPerfect, and so on.

[madeofpalk → funjjhcc]

Isn't that semantics? I'm obviously quite aware there wasn't any physical theft.

My point was around the developers being seemingly okay with ripping off Github's UI.

[Mithaldu → madeofpalk]

The thing you're missing is that in this case UI is not something you can usefully make different without harming yourself in the process, due to it being a huge contributor to function beyond form, and "ripping it off" doesn't hurt anyone else as long as you don't actually impersonate them by copying their logos.

[madeofpalk → Mithaldu]

Stash, Bitbucket and Gitlab all tend to disagree that theres only one way to build a UI for git websites.

I agree that no one is being harmed, but personally I just thing it's shameful.

[Mithaldu → madeofpalk]

Stash and Bitbucket are horrible to use imo, and last time i looked Gitlab looked almost the same as Github.

[benley → Mithaldu]

Gitlab's UI has evolved considerably in the last couple of years. If it looked just like Github when you last saw it, I would suggest checking it out again because it's quite different compared to the gitlab of 2013ish.

also I agree with you that stash and bitbucket are Really Not That Great.

[Mithaldu → benley]

Cheers, gonna give it a look again. I retain the memories of it because the only instance of it i ever used hasn't been updated in years.