Apple Still Says No To Aqua-Like Themes

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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Apple's stance is justified

[sting3r]

Apple has a really bad taste in their mouth from the last time their "look and feel" was blatantly copied. I've used Aqua quite a bit since it came out (one of our machines here at work runs OS X) and it is a *very* slick interface. If they set the precedent of tolerating copying by allowing us Linux users to use similar themes, M$ would have a very good argument to cover their butts when Apple inevitably sues them for doing the same thing.

-sting3r

Re:In All Honesty...

[frknfrk]

perhaps if the BSD people had used the GPL apple would either (1) have much of OS X under the GPL or (2) be dead for not using the BSD people's work out of fear of 'infection'.

but i guess that's why we have BSD v. GPL flamewars.

-sam