Jefe3223 said:There was s big fight over this. Konfab reallized what had happened, was po'd. They complained for both money and an appology. They got niether. They complained for an appology only and got shut down again. It was proven that their software was an extension of (like meltbanana said) an old apple accessory and that it was not theres to begin with. They shut up for awhile but complained when they called it a "widget". Long story short, konfab gets nadda and mac kicks ***. I hate shareware anyway.
Edit*: I love shareware! i'm sorry, don't hate me. OK. OK. I just don't like the annoying widget that you can't get rid of after a certain date...
brendan67 said:I don't care that the stuff was not there's in the first place, dashboard
is a total rip off in design to the way konfab had built the entire widget
lineage. i am surprised especially in a country like USA where everyone
gets litigated, that the konfab lawyers did not have a go.
meltbanana314 said:
This is Desktop Accessories. Looks familiar, doesn't it?
Konfabulator didn't sue because Apple could already claim prior art with the Desktop Accessories program. If the Konfabulator team sued Apple, Apple could take a shot right back saying that the Konfabulator guys ripped off Desktop Accessories and the judge would probably rule in favor of Apple.
Now that Dashboard will be included with Tiger, it just means the Konfabulator guys will have to be more aggressive with their development and think of new features that will entice people to buy licenses.
brendan67 said:hi meltbanana
i bow to your superior knowledge in relation to the original software issue
but lets get back to basics in terms of who copied who?
1. apple invent 'desktop accessories'
2. konfabulator copy the concept and produce modern better version.
3. apple then copy konfabulators version and produce dashboard
without the legal knowledge and outs it seems to me as a layman, konfabs lawyers are asleep.
kind regards
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Kokopelli said:1. Apple invents 'Desktop Accessories'
2. Konfabulator copies the 'Desktop Accessories' and produces a modern, better, version
3. Apple copies Konfabulator and produces a modern, better, version
Dashboard is not a clone of Konfabulator. It extends and improves upon Konfabulator in a number of ways. Most significantly Dashboard is much easier to create widgets for, with a totally different back end, but also less resource intensive (though still uses too much memory IMHO) and integrated at a lower level with the OS. Of course Konfab could not do that low level an integration, but it pays to be the King sometimes. As far as appearance goes, they look like native tools. Should Apple invent a new look?