[SyneRyder]

Also from Marta's author in that thread:

"The development of Marta started the long before I knew about fman, so it's not any kind of imitation."

"I don't think we are the direct competitors. fman is a completely another project with its own strong and weak points. I tried fman and didn't like it because of numerous reasons, but it's my own opinion."

Two column file manager interfaces have been around for a long time, fman certainly didn't invent it. Marta seems to draw more influence from Midnight Commander / Norton Commander, with the function key reminders at the bottom of the window. The breadcrumbs and tabs in Marta remind me more of Panic's Transmit, and those UI elements aren't in fman. There's elements of the standard Mac finder in there. It is definitely not a clone of fman.

I think that was a really unfair comment, designed to get traffic to a competing product.

[mherrmann]

Also from that thread:

> This is eerily similar to fman

> I was about to ask if this was some form of re-release

So it's not just me who thinks the similarities are uncanny.