Ian Landsman is Starting From Scratch, February 24, 2005:
Stealing Your Design
If you're in the market for a powerful and user friendly Help Desk solution, please take a look at my company's flagship product HelpSpot.Must be something in the air. This is why you cough up the few bucks for a designer, the bad press just isn't worth stealing it.
"And now they think it's clearly different, clearly theirs. That is clearly ridiculous. There's a difference between influence and theft, and to me it's clear which side they come down on." (AGILECOpy: The ultimate home page rip-off)
"After reading a pretty amusing post over at 37signals about someone copying their home page and content I decided to check out if I had any impostors.
Using a site mentioned in their comments I found this site which is not only a blatant rip off of my past copy, but a total rip off of our design and style sheet!" (Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery?)
"Well, I've entered a logo design contest recently, being voted upon by registered members of a community. As it turns out, the leading logo candidate may have been done with the use of a cookie-cutter logo from a logo-off-the-shelf website. I was amazed that someone would copy a logomark, verbatim, and try to pass it off as a unique submission!" (Just Good Business)
Discussion
What's the link for the logo design contest?
Created by Liam Strand on 02.24.2005 8:02 pm
I don't have it. Mike if you read this post the link, Thanks!
Created by Ian on 02.24.2005 8:02 pm
Ian,
It's perhaps early to comment, but I realy apreciated your article related to hte creation of a business logo, after reading it I contacted Mike, and we're working in mycompany logo too.
It's amaizing working with Mike, thanks to the technology.
Thanks very much to share your points of view.
Regards
Created by Roberto Cruz on 02.24.2005 8:02 pm
Excellent! Your product looks interesting, good luck with it. If you ever release a mac edition let me know 
On the mac the product I currently use for backup to an external drive is Super Duper, which has been very good to me so far.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Created by Ian on 02.24.2005 8:02 pm
Ian,
I consider the OS X as server version, is much better than Windows. The version one that it's in use in one major Telecom company use OS X as platform for the server, the solution support 100.000 users right know, and the client is Windows and OS X. The platform reside in G5 and XRAID.
This version was developed for this company, Version 2 is for general availability, we're in the last process to have it available.
The product is a backup solution more than a disk copy solution, the idea is to schedule it to do a backup at any change in your data.
Version two imply the migration of more of the Unix code to Windows, due the bigger market.
I hope we could do some business with this, the idea is to market at a very competitive price.
Regards
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Created by Roberto Cruz on 02.24.2005 8:02 pm