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And on an off topic note. How come no one cares when apple steals ideas and incorporates them into the OS.


You mean the Konfabulator - Dashboard issue? Well, lets see. Konfabulator is actually a steaming pile of crap from a programmers prespective. It's overly resource intensive, and provides desktop widgets or accessories.

Apple has webcore in the OS, so the logical step is to do something with it. They had "Desk Accessories" in older Mac OS releases, and now have decided to bring them back, just as they have brought back other features like spring loaded folders. With webcore in the OS, it made sense to make the new versions use web standards instead of a traditional programming language. It is possible Apple was inspired by the work on Konfabulator. It's hard to say though.

If your talking about the Sherlock - Watson issue, well, the Watson developer did turn down Apple's offer to hire him. In that case, Watson was simply an evolution of what the old Sherlock did, so Apple refined the idea and implemented it in Sherlock 3.