Apple Still Says No To Aqua-Like Themes

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 27, 2001 @02:48PM from the why-not-let-people-flatter-you dept.

JoFo writes: "Eric Yang, creator of several Aqua-like themes and skins for GTK+, KDE, Mozilla, gkrellm, and others, was forced by Apple to take down all Aqua-related projects on his web site. It appears they went to his employer as a way to strong-arm him. He writes on his web site 'I went to Apple to test cocoa for Mac OS X 10.1, and found a drag and drop problem with NSPopUpButtonCell. They didn't even pay me for my effort, yet they try to shut down my project. Isn't that ironic?'" Apple seems at least to be consistent in objecting to nearly any non-Apple project that reminds the company of Aqua, so maybe this was just a matter of time.

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Re:Eric Yang, Sociopath? by Ridge2001 · 2001-09-27 15:37 · Score: 5, Funny

First, please don't use the word "ironic " until you learn its meaning. That goes for all of you out there. This has been a major pet peeve of me since the early 90s when all those black and flannel-clad, angsty gen-Xers were big on the word "ironic" without actually knowing the definition of the word.
Funny, I would think that misusing the word "sociopath" would be far more serious than misusing the word "ironic".
Re:Eric Yang, Sociopath? by dangermouse · 2001-09-27 16:59 · Score: 4, Funny

...but I am a member of MENSA...
Translation:
"...however, I am a card-carrying tool..."
Christ, I hate MENSA. There's nothing quite like a Smarter Than Everybody Else Club.