{"id":1427,"date":"2003-05-06T16:33:38","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T21:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2003-05-06T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T21:33:38","slug":"icon-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Icon Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if you&#8217;re going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advercarzing.com\/Advertiser.asp\">rip off<\/a> a major design element from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mac.com\/\">another company<\/a>, you should probably pick one that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,45250,00.html\">doesn&#8217;t<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/story\/0,,t269-s2128898,00.html\">have<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/news\/99\/august\/990820\/applesuesemachines.html\">ten<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1040-244059.html?tag=mainstry\">thousand<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1040-897025.html\">lawyers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocrawler.com\/archives\/3\/363\/1991\/3\/0\/2050660\/\">on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanjose\/stories\/1997\/10\/13\/newscolumn3.html\">speed-dial<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI snagged a screen capture for y&#8217;all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rip-Off.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/Rip-Off.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if you&#8217;re going to rip off a major design element from another company, you should probably pick one that doesn&#8217;t have ten thousand lawyers on speed-dial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}