* The designer did it, not me!
* I argued with him for months and ended up saying "ah, screw it".
* Ubuntu and Gnome do it too!
I don't see any of these as exculpatory. Not that what you've done is necessarily wrong per se, I'd just rather you come by it honestly. I don't think any of these designs (or for example some of the icons - or even the decision to group elements into these categories) are "inevitable".
What kind of "hacker" community does not allow room for the occasional independent thought expressed with a hint of abrasiveness? I welcome downvotes from passive aggressive screwballs on this site. They are a badge of honor.
> Did we actively intend for it to be reminiscent of OS X? Absolutely not
This statement is a total lie.
As others have pointed out, I never said that it isn't in fact reminiscent of OS X, or that we did not evaluate the design of OS X along with a handful of other platforms when we created our designs.
The argument here is about intent, not the result. And there's positively no way you can prove the former, as much as you might dislike the latter.
(I would be happy to describe in greater detail the design process if it might help convince you that we didn't set out with the intention of copying OS X.)