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0 pointsangrow12y ago0 comments

I wouldn't recommend it: the name and logo are trademarked, and even if you replaced those, if anyone noticed the rest of the copying, you'd be the laughingstock of the internet. Who'd want to buy your product then?

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perrupa12y ago

Zynga doesn't particularly seem to care about that kind of thing and they're doing pretty ok...

belandrew12y ago

Zynga only had one profitable year in 2010. They have lost $600 million since then.

chris_wot12y ago

Worst. Example. Evar.

tesseractive12y ago

They are?

imdsm12y ago

The exec$ are doing ju$t fine I'm $ure

FLUX-YOU12y ago

I think you're proposing dire consequences where there aren't likely to be any.

Google copying Yahoo's front page code? Okay, that'll be in the news and everyone will have a good laugh.

Some Joe Schmoe Web Developer lifting CSS/HTML from an unknown client to sell to an unknown client? Eh, not so much. This probably happens often and goes undetected.

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