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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by twelvechairs » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:41 AM UTC

SmileyJames wrote: post #164

dathinab wrote: post #148

This looks like a legal nightmare. I mean there are all kinds of protections of visual thinks like e.g. design patents. I would be highly surprised if this doesn't violate at least one or two apple hold still valid design patents or other protection mechanisms. Because lets be honest design/visual wise it's less iPad/iOs inspired but a bland clone of the iOs design on iPad with some/many minor but in the grater pictu…

It's a Chinese company

> We are based in Beijing and California.

from their 'about' page

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by dathinab » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:45 AM UTC

pekinlcc wrote: post #126

popcorncowboy wrote: post #94

Unfortunate name [0] :| or perhaps it was intended? Very clever then. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

Jing means Whale, so does the logo.

It's not that simple, depending on the Mandarin writing it can also refer to "essence" and probably some other things.

It's appearing in traditional Chinese medicine and seems to be a fairly important concept there.

It also seems to be used as a name.

So Jing is a fairly wide spread well known mandarin word but a Jing + OS + wrong pronoun-cation sounds similar to a not that widely known english word which seems to have gone out of fashion quite a while ago...

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by dathinab » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:47 AM UTC

iFreilicht wrote: post #86

Hamuko wrote: post #58

It looks so inspired that Apple legal might also be inspired.

The company making JingOS is based in China. Not sure Apple has much legal leverage there.

You mean besides:

- making it illegal to import any product having it installed

- making it illegal to host a copy in the US/EU/UK and probably other places, too

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by GordonS » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:49 AM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #143

GordonS wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how common is it to be a reader of The Economist?

Extremely common, it’s the standard magazine for economics and politics.

Maybe, but it's not "extremely common" to read any high-brow publications on politics and economics.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:52 AM UTC

runawaybottle wrote: post #166

dathinab wrote: post #148

This looks like a legal nightmare. I mean there are all kinds of protections of visual thinks like e.g. design patents. I would be highly surprised if this doesn't violate at least one or two apple hold still valid design patents or other protection mechanisms. Because lets be honest design/visual wise it's less iPad/iOs inspired but a bland clone of the iOs design on iPad with some/many minor but in the grater pictu…

A bland ios clone is still miles ahead of any ui the other distros have.

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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by garmaine » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 11:58 AM UTC

solstice wrote: post #156

ibejoeb wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the name is a play on jingoism

No it isn't. See their About page

Two things can be true.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by mickael-kerjean » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:02 PM UTC

gh02t wrote: post #10

michaericalribo wrote: post #3

Awesome! Its exciting to see new applications of *nix OSes that are design-forward and targeted towards modern computing paradigms / platforms. I’m a grumpy graybeard who likes Arch on my laptop and Debian on my server...but cosmetics and familiar visual vocab and adopting industry ux practices—these are undeniable obstacles that must be overcome before “the year of the Linux desktop “ :)

I don't want to be too hard on this project, but is it really "design-forward" when it's blatantly and explicitly copying the look and feel of iOS/iPadOS? Originality seems like an important component of good design.

The only thing that matter to me is can it run a terminal and can it run emacs. With the ipad/iphone failing on both those, this is quite forward to me

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by pekinlcc » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:03 PM UTC

dathinab wrote: post #172

pekinlcc wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jing means Whale, so does the logo.

It's not that simple, depending on the Mandarin writing it can also refer to "essence" and probably some other things. It's appearing in traditional Chinese medicine and seems to be a fairly important concept there. It also seems to be used as a name. So Jing is a fairly wide spread well known mandarin word but a Jing + OS + wrong pronoun-cation sounds similar to a not that widely known english word which seems to ha…

Yes, you know a lot about Chinese. But the Jing of JingOS means Whale specifically. You can check here: https://www.jingos.com/about/

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by SquareWheel » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:07 PM UTC

popcorncowboy wrote: post #94

Unfortunate name [0] :| or perhaps it was intended? Very clever then. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

Wow, yeah. That was my first thought upon seeing the name. Definitely could have picked something better.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by andrewinardeer » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:09 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #112

hnarn wrote: post #110

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Why isn’t it obscure? Because you know it?

I mean Terry Pratchett (very popular English language author) wrote a book literally called Jingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel) It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.

If it's relevant my cat is name Jingo.