About differentiation : my framework is inspired by the web development frameworks and agile development philosophy (Especially ruby on Rails). The "Convention over configuration" approach.
In most case, you will use the commons GUI elements provided and you will save some time.
If you need to make it look different, you already have a foundation to quickly customize the appearance. The idea is to no repeat yourself designing the same elements (radio buttons, forms, tabs, windows, always 90% the same..) to concentrate to the really important design problems to solve.
Hi, I'm Vincent : the web designer who created this framework. I wasn't aware that the linkback could be such a problem and your feedback make me think to one solution :
• The idea of the backlink is to be granted for the work I've done : it make the framework more known and make my SEO better. It will help me to have better freelance missions.
• Due to your feedback and others (jeffrey Zeldman pointed the same problem for example), I'm now thinking to propose a special license that you can use the framework for multiple projects without making a backlink. If you don't want to make a backlink, you can pay for it, something betwwen 50 to 100$
I think that in this case, those will pay will have a more complete version with more stuff, more variations (using all the new features of CS5).
This extra money could help me spending more time on this framework.
In most case, you will use the commons GUI elements provided and you will save some time. If you need to make it look different, you already have a foundation to quickly customize the appearance. The idea is to no repeat yourself designing the same elements (radio buttons, forms, tabs, windows, always 90% the same..) to concentrate to the really important design problems to solve.