John Gruber (Daring Fireball) à propos de HuddleChat, une des premières applications de démonstration de Google App Engine :
Even if you think it’s OK to copy someone else’s application feature-for-feature, the big fear for developers with something like Google App Engine is that you’re trusting Google with all of your source code. Why should small indie web developers trust Google when the first example app is a Google rip-off of a small indie web app?
Voir son commentaire en entier.
Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong. And it’s creepy, in a Microsoft-of-the-’90s way, when it’s a $150 billion company cloning an app from a 10-person company.
Voir également son premier commentaire de la journée à propos du cas HuddleChat.
