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Apple's"iWeb" may be a Ripoff of Karelia's "Sandvox"
news.zdnet.com — Remember the Dashboard and Konfabulator issue? Karelia has been working on a program called Sandvox, a set of tools designed it to make it easier for people to publish their own rich Web site...Apple is due to announce something called, "iWeb", which appears to be very similar.
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- georgehotelling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dashboard and Konfabulator issue? What about the way Apple ripped off Karelia's Watson for Sherlock 2?
- Floach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah, misinformation. How do I love thee.
Konfabulator was hardly a new idea - Apple had a similar technology in much older versions of Mac OS called Desk Accessories. Konfabulator actually took the idea from Apple - not the other way around.
Watson/Sherlock - according to daringfireball ... (admitting that Apple gave him advance knowledge of Sherlock 3’s release, and that they offered him a job on the Sherlock team, which offer he turned down, all of which is contrary to the conventional wisdom regarding the Watson-Sherlock saga)
And now, iWeb/Sandvox ... well, last time I checked, a WYSIWYG HTML editor isn't exactly a new invention. I remember using HoTMetaL in what, 1997? 1998? It was crap, but it was exactly that - a WYSIWYG editor.
The ZDNet story misrepresents facts and situations, and then closes it with ominous "Apple declined to comment for this story." What a load of ***** - this is pointlessly negative journalism at its finest.
While I love Apple, I can't stand corporate villainy - and that includes Apple. Anyone remember the iBook logic board fiasco? Deplorable. But the "issues" listed in this article and previous comments are, to put it bluntly, crap. - konfusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So you better have an eye on rapidWeaver from Realmac Software (http://realmacsoftware.com). That's the one being ripped of from Sandvox/iWeb/Whatever...
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agreed that neither Sandvox nor iWeb are new product types, so which came first is irrelevant. The same could largely be said of Konfab/Dashboard, though the implementation of konfab was a lot more original, and it was copied pretty closely by dashboard. For that type of product though, a runtime for other small apps, it makes much more sense to have it bundled with the OS rather than distributed separately, so I think the users win there. As for iWeb, I'm sure Apple will do a pretty good job on it, but I'm also sure they'll leave the market wide open for more pro-geared tools.
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