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Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

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Post by hysan »

austenallred wrote: post #21

I love the idea of open source tools, but this goes way too far. This isn't just rebuilding a popular concept, this is taking code that was written by a for-profit company and blatantly stealing it. There's an important difference. The earlier versions of this repo still used the Trello logo. Trello's CSS is blatantly used, even using trellicons, the custom icon font created by Trello. The entire front-end is complet…

I want to agree with this sentiment, but after watching how gamedev has progressed in the mobile space, I can't find a good argument against this. Straight up cloning has become common practice in today's industry (assets are switched but with striking similarity to the original), yet I don't see as many people frowning on this practice anymore. At least outside of tech circles.

So yeah, to those of us who understand what goes into development, cloning is ethically reprehensible. But once you step outside of the tech world, I believe the ethics of this become much more murky.

Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

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Post by GETah »

Spooky23 wrote: post #17
codereflection wrote: post #3

Trello is free, so is this meant to complete with Trello Gold?

I can't use Trello at work because some of the data that would be placed there may have a restrictive information classification. I'd love to be able to buy a different tier of Trello service instead of stickers, but an open source clone will do too!

We've got an application that is very similar to trello (www.iferapp.com) that we are planning to offer in self hosted mode - we are going into beta very soon.

Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

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Post by agmcleod »

ay1n wrote: post #72
agmcleod wrote: post #53

Been kinda building a trello-like app myself. But it's far more simplistic in features, and i'm trying to build it so it's way more mobile friendly. I have the front end as open source, and the web back end as closed. Not sure why I am doing it this way, but I hope to put out a proprietary iOS app for it at some point. More or less started it to learn ReactJS. http://gitub.com/agmcleod/desert

There's typo in the URL, should be: https://github.com/agmcleod/desert

Ah thanks :)

Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

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Post by bbcbasic »

bdcravens wrote: post #91
nickysielicki wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're forgetting that they wrote the entire backend as a part of this.

Quickly reading through the code, it looks like the frontend is the bulk of the code. Which makes sense: Trello is really a pretty simple app; the UI experience is where the real magic is.

Could even be done as a couchapp.

Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

#105

Post by kjs3 »

janus wrote: post #31

It's so sad that such great work can bring so many negative repercussions just because the project creator's decided to blatantly rip off Trello's assets. The project would be under such a different light had they decided style it themselves... I think they're so much better than this.

What "great work". He took someone else's work and said "look what I did".

Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

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Post by lucio »

kjs3 wrote: post #105
janus wrote: post #31

It's so sad that such great work can bring so many negative repercussions just because the project creator's decided to blatantly rip off Trello's assets. The project would be under such a different light had they decided style it themselves... I think they're so much better than this.

What "great work". He took someone else's work and said "look what I did".

They should rewrite the CSS from scratch.

But for everything else is seems it is original work. And that's a big part of the project.

Re: Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

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Post by GETah »

Spooky23 wrote: post #17
codereflection wrote: post #3

Trello is free, so is this meant to complete with Trello Gold?

I can't use Trello at work because some of the data that would be placed there may have a restrictive information classification. I'd love to be able to buy a different tier of Trello service instead of stickers, but an open source clone will do too!

And here it is selfhosted.iferapp.com
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