If you own an iPhone, you've undoubtedly used an app that has the "Pull to Refresh"�functionality. You know, where you pull a screen down to refresh the contents on the page. That was originally the work of Loren Brichter, now a Twitter employee who built it for his Tweetie 2 iPhone app (now called Twitter for iPhone). Another group of developers, Enormego, rebuilt the functionality and open-sourced it (apparently with Brichter's blessing) a while back. Which brings us to yesterday, when it landed in Facebook's new iPhone app.
The fact that Facebook is using it isn't an issue at all. The problem is that they then wrapped it into their Three20 iOS library (which they also open-source), but did so without proper attribution. The Enormego guys looked at the code and quickly realized it was nearly an exact copy of theirs. They immediately put up a post entitled "What ever happened to common courtesy?" And rightly so.BT GROUP
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