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Post #36 by Captain Obvious
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 29 Jun 2004 - 14:38
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050523071602/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=218479
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Quote:
Originally posted by ambush:



If you develop a truly nice/revolutionary app for Mac OS X, we copy it w/o crediting you in any way in our next OS X release.

And for the ones who are not convinced it's a rip off:


As usual you are wrong.

Quote:
Originally posted by K++:

It also costs money and relies on the creativity of its users to create the interesting widgets and gives them no compensation for it. That seems a tad flawed business plan to expect your product to make use of other people's creativity without ever giving anything to them in return.


And there in is the problem with Konfab. Most of the useful applications of it were not made or developed by them. They created a shell to run the Java apps in OS X, nothing more. No innovation, no original concept as has been proven by several others.