Don’t steal from my friends…

Chris Pearson is my friend. He’s also an uber-designer who designed the current look & feel of The Blog Herald and many other great sites out there too. And if there’s one thing that I do where my friends are concerned is have their back.

Chris designed an awesome Wordpress theme called Cutline not long ago. Like all things that Chris designs – it’s clean, sharp, slick as a greased pig, and rocks the Wordpress world.

Some asshat running a blog called Blargy has written about how he created a new theme called Cleanline.

Cleanline, of course, is a complete ripoff of Pearson’s Cutline theme. The CSS is almost exactly the same – in complete violation of Chris’s Creative Commons license.

Here is the Cutline CSS – and here is the Blargy “Cleanline” CSS.

Now, there are those who do not respect the ownership rights and copyrights of others. But all of us should respect the designer – the content creator – and others who take the time to use their talents to create something – that in this case Chris is giving away to the Wordpress community and asking for nothing in exchange.

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So, congratulations Mr. Blargy Asshat. Welcome to the frontpage of The Blog Herald.

Don’t steal from my friends.

Update: Chris Pearson: Do Not Steal From Me.

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