I get what donut is doing, since he hasn't really sold anything original on his store and this is to be expected. I expect he will run other colorways other people have done before.
Lets see:
- GMK Coniferous - pretty original imo, but someone will probably try to tell me they came up with the idea in an SA set 3 years previous and that I shouldn't have run it
- GMK Royal Alpha - original design from MOZ, I vendored R2 with his permission
- GMK BoB - original design from cocobrais, I was just a proxy
- GMK Forge - original design from Ryu, I was the main vendor for the set
- GMK 60's Happy Life - another design from cocobrais that I was a proxy for
That's all the keysets I've ran, unless you wanna try saying my cables aren't original or something, but that's a little weird to define.
I understand the designers attacking him, because donut is a VENDOR who copies colorways. It's not like I didn't want to run GMK Troubled Minds, it's because vendors will say they're interested and then put you on a never-ending queue. donut as a vendor doesn't have that problem, clearly he just chooses whatever colorway he feels like whenever he feels like it as shown from his current ICs and past buys.
If the set isn't using the specific colors of another set, is it really a copy? Unless you want to say that once a set has been made that combines any type of green and purple, no other person ever is allowed to use those colors again. Trying to keep people from making something because they're using "the same colors" is pretty **** and doesn't help the community any, unless you for some reason think monopolies on vague color combinations is a healthy thing.
I understand the buyers, because they don't care about anything but being able to buy colored plastics that they want and not need.
Really, I try to keep to myself doing my small projects. Just go do whatever you want.
In other news, I'm now opening a GB for glasses for some of the people in this thread that actually believe that this set is a copy of Troubled Minds. Granted, someone will probably complain that the color of glasses I choose is a ripoff of another popular glasses GB that was ran years ago for a different shape of glasses.
Who said anything about moving it into the MD subforum? Donut Cat seems to be a very active vendor, I feel he has earned his own subforum where all his IC's and GB's could be moved to. Or are you saying this new rule applies to Massdrop related projects alone?
According to the vendor/artisan guidelines, I don't meet the criteria for vendor status.