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Sure, but borrowing so liberally usually merits at least a credit to the original artists.

That's just common decency in the artistic world.

Sure, but contacting Mozilla to tell them you'd like the images removed or a credit would be a reasonable reaction. Writing a sensationalist blog post accusing Mozilla of "stealing your design" in their "new design" is, in my opinion, a more serious violation of common decency.

Shall we just wait and see what Mozilla has to say? It's all very well playing devils advocate, but until both sides are known it's still supposition one way or the other.

Unless you're involved somehow, that is.

Based on the speed with which they removed the images from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/FlightDeck after the link was posted here, I'm pretty sure they're aware of this thread.

I think they've had time to give a public apology or at least a simple "we're looking into this issue". I'm disappointed that they haven't done either of those yet.

Perhaps they're looking to do this professionally and privately without making immediate public statements that will seem like excuses while everyone is out of their minds with rage over some mock-ups on a wiki?

Seeing as the issue is already public, a quick "we're looking into the issue" would be a reasonable, professional response. They don't need to make a public statement that specifically acknowledges any wrongdoing, but they should make a point that they recognize the issue and are trying to work it out rather than simply burying it.

EDIT: at this point, Mozilla has given a response to MetaLabs that appears to have satisfied them. That's good enough for me.

(BTW what makes you think people are "out of their minds with rage"? Mozilla did something irresponsible, but I'm not going to get angry about it.)

> Sure, but contacting Mozilla to tell them you'd like the images removed or a credit would be a reasonable reaction.

But where's the marketing/seo angle in that?

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