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Disclaimer: I use Rails daily, and have no hard feelings for DHH or 37Signals.

That out of the way, you are still saying that Google took the functionality and design from Campfire. Where as what I am saying is that Google took the functionality and design from almost every web chat program that came before it and there was a large number before Campfire itself existed.

To say they took it from campfire is to ignore all the existing implementations that existed before it. It is to rewrite history with the starting point for web chat on the launch date of Campfire.

I doubt Google pulled it because they thought they ripped off Campfire, my money would be on them pulling it because it wasn't important enough to risk bad PR over.