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Lots of Hacker News users are musicians. Lots of musicians are hackers. Lots of them own Behringer gear. Lots of them own Apple gear. Many of them are interested in issues pertaining to Trademark, Copyright, Patents, IP Theft and other legal issues.

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What is wrong with the ripoff? It's not an exact copy, and it's still in a slightly different market than Apple is. If someone took a deceptively similar coke can and converted it into a speaker, would that infringe on Coca-Cola's look & feel?

Microsoft ripped off Apple's windowing look & feel, and Apple ripped it off from Xerox's Alto.

> Apple ripped it off from Xerox's Alto

Apple licenced it from Xerox

Lots of Hacker News users are musicians.

Citation? Not being confrontational or anything, just really curious.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428776 as one example.

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