[mgrouchy]

I certainly don't think the Quora Engineers were right to vandalize the clones website in this case.

I'm all about people making Q/A websites and releasing products that are clones of other products. Ideally this kind of competition can make the original product better.

That being said, I find making a clone of someones product and then releasing said product at least in this sense, distasteful. Seeing that it has such similarity to the original that if you weren't familiar with the original you probably couldn't tell the difference.

[joshu]

Design clones are super lame.

[hackinthebochs]

Why? What separates design clone vs functionality clone, making one legitimate and the other distasteful?