[ChrisGrowl]

I never used macOS until OS X and most definitely did not copy it. Nothing about Growl was a copy of that.

Growl was inspired from being project manager on Adium and worked with the people making colloquy. The devs on colloquy were working on notifications and so we’re we and I thought it was smarter to make it a separate tool.

[SwimSwimHungry]

Hey Chris, for what it's worth, your software was quite a lifesaver for me in my earlier OS X days back in college. Your software had great impact on my workflow and I'll never forget it. :)

[ChrisGrowl]

Happy to hear it. We’re totally didn’t know what we were doing really, just making something we wanted.

[kergonath]

It just illustrates how natural the concept is. I don’t mean that in a bad way; it’s such an elegant solution and I would not be surprised to see other implementations before MacOS 9.

Anyway, Growl did much more than that, and I don’t think there is any doubt Apple’s current implementation owes a lot to your design.

[ChrisGrowl]

Yea I just wanted to clear up the inspiration bit. I’m sure if we hadn’t done it someone else would have.

[thewebcount]

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.