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On a tip from Forevergeek, I found out today some very disturbing news. A foul and disgusting act has been perpetrated on the hard work done by Chris Pederick, who created the outstanding Web Developer Firefox Extension.

Everyone by now should be aware that I'm a fan of Open Source, and Web Developer is under a GPL license, so anyone can download and use the source code and adapt and improve on it (within the retrictions of the license).

But this is pretty blatant. The company, Aevita, also took the stock icons from Mozilla, used the exact same layout for their toolbar, and even stole large chunks of the help documentation for their own version. Which is built for IE by the way. And they're charging a fee for it. Sigh.

I would recommend visiting the Aevita Web site, and giving them an earful, but the last time I checked it was throwing "Bandwidth Exceeded" errors. Dumbasses.