Open Office, Stepmania, and other blatent rip-offs. How do they get away with it?
I was just wondering about things like Open Office. It’s almost an exact duplicate of Microsoft Office. Stepmania is almost exactly like Dance Dance Revolution. How are they allowed to make something so close without getting sued? Is it because these things are free?
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It’s called capitalism; pepsi is like coke, sprite is like 7up, tango is like fanta, to venture no further than drinks as an example. The VW polo is like the Peugeot 106 to give another example. As long as there are products people like, there are competitors who will try and emulate it. Open Office make their money from advertising, etc, and thats why they do it.
They are duplicating, functions of software, not illegal to do, by writing "new" different code. The program code is what can and is copyright material.