I thought this thread is end but it is not, this is good.GeddichNixan wrote: I am sorry, but this was by no means an appropriate counterargument. You answered with yet more sarcasm, now we definitely know and are repeatedly reminded that you are annoyed, but that was it. Constructive? Not at all.
As you said, the opposite point of view between you and my countrymen about my website is base on different cultures. The ShanZhai culture became popular since China start openning gates in 1980's. If you look ahead, the communism is ShanZhaied from Russia, isn't it? So it's no doubt most people in China now enjoying ShanZhaiing like a kind of amusement. Every spring festival some Shanzhai comedian came out and imitate some ugly famous Stars on TV, they won't be indicted.
This is sad, and won't last long. As you said, most industry begins from copying. And I don't approve of this (ShanZhai behaviour). So why do I made a website like this?
In my point of view, there're two kind of ShanZhai, the 100% copycat and the copying of the skin. Some ShanZhai factories copied Apple from outside to inside, with no creation. Their products named "lphone" or "lpad", etc. This is the 100% copycat. It's the synonyms for plagiarize ,tort and inferior quality, it has no contribute on promoting human progress. It's worthless and not worth mentioning.
But there's another kind of ShanZhai. As you mentioned Japan, Japanese characters is ShanZhaied from China a long period ago, in 14 century they create kana to spell Chinese characters (like English letters). Nowadays modern Japanese is a mixture of Chinese characters and kana. This is another kind of ShanZhai. Another example is the katana (Japanese samurai sword), which is ShanZhaied from China in Tang dynasty (the late period of the Frankish Empire in Europe), nowadays it became the most famous ancient sword in the world. So this kind of ShanZhai is based on creation. It copied the skin and create a new spirit, it do promoting the human progress.
Back to my copycat site. You have made a common view that this is the most ridiculous copying of portableapps.com. But if you see a site not only copy the domain name, the logo, but all it's content is copied from portableapps.com, what will you think? There's a lots this kind of site on internet. When I change the domain name and the site banner, it will be no any relationship to portableapps.com. All apps in the site is written by me, none of one single code is copied from them (of course I read their codes and learned a lot). The purpose I made it look like ShanZhai goods (in your word, worthless copycat) is to amuse my vistors. First they will think: another ShanZhai site. And then they will found there're a lot of original content. A lot of Chinese apps that PortableApps.com will never made. Big contrast is the source of humorous. This is what I want. As I wrote in the about page([site removed]/about/), this site is ShanZhaiing with creation.
So please don't think "it's black, or it's white". You have been living in a world in good order and perfect law for long time. So you don't understand the grey humourous in a country like mine.
Anyway, thanks a lot. I have learned a lot from you. If your purpose is "let me learn about your point of view", you already did. I hope I can write in Chinese, my English is so bad. That's all.