[siddarthd2919]

How is Slack not suing Uber for uChat? The images on the link look like an exact copy.

[a13n]

On what grounds would they sue? Not only is it completely legal to copy a competitor's design (in most cases), Uber isn't selling this to other companies.

[8ytecoder]

I don’t understand why the above user is getting downvoted to oblivion by people who don’t understand legalities. Trade dress[1] is a form of intellectual property. This is what prevents a company from copying a competitor down to the pixel. Apple and Samsung fought an infamous and long legal battle over this. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

[2] https://revisionlegal.com/trademarks/lessons-trademarking-tr...

[infinite8s]

It only matters for product you sell (hence the reference to consumer confusion). Ubers chat sounds like it's solely for internal use.

[spiznnx]

uChat is a fork of Mattermost, which looks like an exact copy too.

https://mattermost.com/

[FDSGSG]

You think Slack came up with that design? Hah.

[Meekro]

Check out some screenshots of Discord, that basically looks like "Slack with a dark theme."

[redwall_hp]

And they all look like any generic IRC client with fatter margins and some other 2010+ fluff.

[bagels]

Would need to sue Discord too.

[tozeur]

The post says they used an open source chat core called Mattermost.

[yitchelle]

Only companies with mega deep pockets (to pay the real winners ie the lawyers) would engage in these type of tom foolery.

I am talking about Samsung and Apple here..

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Constrained solution space > all chat apps look the same.

Except Snapchat, I still can't work out what that's about.