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Copying look and feel of software was fought out in the courts by Apple and Microsoft a very long time ago. It’s allowed.

• Ciantic 5y ago
  How about in Czech Republic, or EU courts? There is always a way for big companies to fight small ones. Of course one way to defend that would be to have the company be US based or with founding US partners.
  • rijoja 5y ago
    Usually by buying them. If not that by hiring 10x the amounts of the coders and copy whatever that did and then launch a massive PR campaign.
  • tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
    They could try to bog down photopea in permanent lawsuits, but that would risk some EFF-style organization taking the other side, and now they're fighting an equal opponent, earning a lot of bad PR, and most importantly, they're providing a lot of cheap advertising for the competing product while also making themselves unpopular.
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