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Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind

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Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind

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I wonder why most of those who copied his website are Indians

Indian here. Finding good designers has become the bane of my existence. We don't have a strong design culture. What designers we do have are amateurs fighting for $5/hr projects on Elance. Their work is mostly borrowed and their skills limited to a handful of Photoshop effects and good Google skills. The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to ma…

Well it isn't like we have freedom to explore an idea either. I was a designer in a past life and gave up designing as neither did I want to compete with $5 designers nor did I want to copy a site as most clients insisted.

India's startup culture itself is hugely local copies of existing business models. Unless we realize this and address the fundamental issue we will be stuck in Copyland.

Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind

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Great to read this. I admit, I pretty much copied you too: http://www.zubairquraishi.com/ :)

Since you only copied the navigation menu and you don't claim to be a designer, I think you fall under the category of inspired rather than copy cat :)

Ah, ok, well thanks for the inspiration! :)
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