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Hmm. It's brutal but not "wrong", by which I think the poster means "unfair & anti-competitive".

The point of this platform is to make it easier to write applications. They proved it by cloning the poster child for the last prod-hype-tivity platform, RoR. Life goes on.

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Wrong in the sense that is not how you make your platform attractive to developers. What happened to "do not be evil"?

Really?! If one of the example apps for your platform is a clone of an existing -- and profitable -- service, your platform's suddenly super-attractive to this developer.

This is exactly how Microsoft did business: clone, acquire, or kill competitors that had any success running on their platform.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Some might prefer money over flattery :)

Oh, that's must be why they took it down.

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