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Apple Still Says No To Aqua-Like Themes

Posted by timothy on 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.

3 of 589 comments (clear)

  1. Re:In All Honesty... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In all honesty that's a pretty sad link. I can't say I'm gealous.

  2. Well at least troll accurately by Sagarian · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Postus primus
    Posta prima
    Postum primum

    take your pick depending on gender. In your case the third is probably appropriate.

  3. In your dreams by Archfeld · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide PC Shipments, Second Quarter 2001 (Preliminary)
    Rank Vendor Q2 2001 Shipments Market Share Q2 2000 Shipments Market Share Growth 2001/2002
    1 Dell 3979 13.4% 3459 11.4% 15.0%
    2 Compaq 3590 12.1% 4011 13.2% -10.5%
    3 IBM 2133 7.2% 2260 7.4% -5.6%
    4 Hewlett-Packard 2065 6.9% 2260 7.4% -8.6%
    5 Fujitsu Siemens 1375 4.6% 1391 4.6% -1.1%
    OTHER 16641 55.9% 17002 56.0% -2.1%
    All Vendors 29783 100% 30383 100% -2.0
    --
    errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?