From what I see is more like: Why do you touch my apples? You said you didn't wa...

Semiapies · on March 10, 2010

Except, of course, I already took the apples home.

Yesterday.

(Or in Mozilla's case, three months prior.)

I get that folks love Mozilla and don't like MetaLab, but the contortions people are going through to try to paint them as wrong or stupid on this issue are headache-inducing. I wish people would just honestly say, "I don't care that Mozilla ripped off MetaLab."

scotty79 · on March 11, 2010

I can't force myself to think about the design as an item that comes in a opaque box with price tag. You have to try if design fits. If it fits you keep it, pay for it and everyone is happy. If not, you don't pay for it and toss it away what apparently Mozilla did. Same thing you do with photographs. You try many of them, but buy only the ones that go into final design. I wonder if MetaLab pays for all the photos that go through its designers hands.

There are some screenshot that prove that at some point that design was tried to be fitted. That's all. Not that Mozilla took design home and unboxed it without paying.

Semiapies · on March 11, 2010

"If not, you don't pay for it and toss it away what apparently Mozilla did."

They did not toss it away, which is the whole point. They used it in public material.

That you can't "force" yourself to think in terms of accepting or declining agreements is an issue you might look into; I have nothing further to add.