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pclark
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Svbtle Funding
Silicon Valley appears to think there is a fine line between "drawing inspiration" and "copying." There isn't and to be honest, your output is a good example of the latter, not the former.
dangero
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What makes you say that? I'm looking at the two side by side right now and they are vastly different. What has svbtle created that is being copied?
cheald
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I'm pretty sure the distinction is "It's inspiration when I do it, it's copying when you do it." :)
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