Inspiration or Plagiarism?(kashflow.com)
kashflow.com
Inspiration or Plagiarism?
http://www.kashflow.com/blog/am-i-paranoid/
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Hmmm... was looking at signing up for online accountancy package today. Went to Kashflow and saw their page on API with a headline 'Welcome, Code Monkeys.'
Their whole business is software and yet that they try to be so desperately cool, to me shows that they see, even their own, developers just as a service and not as valuable, core team.
Their whole business is software and yet that they try to be so desperately cool, to me shows that they see, even their own, developers just as a service and not as valuable, core team.
Then we are giving you the wrong impression. I'm the founder, I'm a programmer. The biggest team we have here are the programmers - not sales, marketing, support - programmers.
And you can't say you have dibs on speech bubbles or even arrows, come on! (They use alot of stock photos and 3d icons, compared to your flat 2 drawings. There's quite a bit of styling difference as well)
Your own logo is a direct copy of a commonly used refresh/replay/continuous icon that is available as stock over the web – so I'd be a bit more hesitant before jumping on the internet (where things are recorded 'forever') before slinging plagiarize/inspiration-less accusations at your rivals.