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And it's almost 2 years old.

I think you mean, Em Spaint.

Typey type, typity type type.

Vector is still pixel maps. Open an SVG in a text editor 😉

Yea, and in this instance, they were using a free font.

Personally I think the artistry in the typeface itself is what should be protected.

If you copy a font, bitmap or not, you're doing it as a pixel map on a pixelated monitor.

Funny, but fonts can't be copyrighted.

They say the ad used XBand Rough, an "illegal clone".

If you redraw an entire font, pixel for pixel, manually, it is not an illegal clone. This happens all the time. The creators of the ad just used a copy that was free.

So ironic, yes, illegal, no.

Full rewrites do happen. The first commit of PiKVM is a copy of my repo: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm/commit/70eebd5c59da26dc3f6ad56730adbb616055f4e5#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R4. I was referenced there for a long time before eventually being removed, and I'm pretty sure by then my code had been fully rewritten.

Though I did find it funny when LTT covered them and said they complained about a copycat who wasn't giving them credit 😆

So for those wondering on comparisons to other FOSS options:

Fittrackee (https://github.com/SamR1/FitTrackee): Very similar, but Endurain also seems to track weight vs just activity.

Wanderer (https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer): Also similar, but has social sharing and geared more towards trail recording like Alltrails. Also does not have weight tracking.

Note: Another big differentiator seems to be Garmin and Strava integrations.

Distributed hosting isn't really a problem here, its distributed funding for the staff.

"Normal person" is a modifier of server. It does not state any expectation of every normal person having a server. Instead, it sets expectation that they are talking about servers owned by normal people. I have a server. I am norm.. crap.

I dont see this in the article.