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I'm all for pushing boundaries, but this is a classic case of form over function.

PR / Marketing / Brand — All aspects of the cult of a personality.

Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology. Copycats can build the technology, but that's it. All the…

There is no original thought here, the design and idea are identical, whether it's technically right or wrong, this shouldn't be encouraged. Feel for you here dcurtis, and surprise…

It'd be a shame to see such a beautifully simple feature that is the iconic 'Like' watered down by a stab-in-the-dark revenue model.

One problem is that your average designer will not know what versioning is, never mind have an opinion as to whether it'd be useful or not. I see this as a case of applying a succe…

Andy Warhol produced numerous versions of his Campbell soup, in doing so he added some value in asking questions, if it was just one can of soup this wouldn't have been the case. A…

I'm a designer (and developer, depending on the task). Not the designer.

"But the posters are a sentence fragment in a standard font. They're not printing off bootleg copies of the Mona Lisa here." --- A 63-year-old Picasso got out his pen and paper and…

Do you not see this as immoral and disrespectful to the original artist?

Good artists copy, greats artists steal and make that they've stolen their own. We are all influenced by the same things, it's what you do with that influence that matters.

"The Hacker Way" is no excuse to steal. Your intentions are irrelevant. Unless somebody has clearly stated you can reproduce their creative work you shouldn't, nor should you want …