COLOURlovers
Created December 2004
Adobe Kuler
Created November 2006
Make, Rate, Tag & Share 5 Color Palettes
Grayscale Site Design
Color Spelled with a “U”

The Market Noticed the Similarities

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Looks like someone got the idea from someone else” - View the Source

“Of course, they have not invented it - our friends colourlovers.com run a similar project for already several years.” - View the Source

Cant give them all the credit though, its based at least in part on well-established colourlovers community site.” - View the Source
competition is an absolutely important aspect of business
but
This is a guy with loans up against a company that had a dissapointing second quarter of 2006 with a net income of only $123.1 million.
DOS was wriiten by Seattle Computer Products, yet MicroSoft fraduntlenty claimed to have developed DOS when selling it to IBM. MicroSoft settled with Seattle Computer Products for $1 Million in 1986.
Or maybe they sent the project to India