I suppose most, if not all, of you who frequent the Kongregate Off-Topic forum have heard about the (not so) recent spam war between Nonoba and Kongregate. Supposedly, Nonoba "stole" Kong's ideas, i.e. the achievement system and the chat system. Recently, another thread has popped up, claiming that some of the games on Nonoba are stolen.
Regarding the first part, and this has been stated by many before, there are many flash sites out there, does that mean they all stole from the very first one? The layouts for them are all basically the same, and as was pointed out in Nonoba's apology thread, they all have the same purpose. So why not leave them be? We have no proof that all of their ideas are stolen from us, and almost NO site is 100% original anymore. The spam was completely unnecessary, and both sides acted immaturely. However, both sides also apologized, so no harm done.
And as for the stolen games thing, it would seem that some of them are stolen, specifically the ones from sam_steps. I agree that some of those games are not his, and he appears not to have given credit to the original creators. This seems like very compelling evidence against him, but I'm not entirely sure, as much as I'd like to say that he stole those games. If it turns out that he did, it shouldn't ruin the whole site's reputation. If he does indeed have permission to display the game, he should credit the creator.
So, in closing, leave Nonoba alone. There's no proof that they're stealing from us.
I know I'm a bit late on the conflict, but I just started the blog the other day, cut me some slack. =P
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