Don Ho forces unauthorized Mac Notepad++ port to rebrand as Nextpad++
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Updated · PCMag UK · May 4
Don Ho forces unauthorized Mac Notepad++ port to rebrand as Nextpad++
11 articles · Updated · PCMag UK · May 4
New York engineer Andrey Letov replaced the chameleon logo with a frog and said the domain would switch from notepad-plus-plus-mac.org to nextpad.org.
Ho said the app was allowed under the GPL, but using the Notepad++ name, logo and his author-page credit misled users and some tech media into thinking it was official.
Ho, who does not own a Mac, said he reported the site to Cloudflare as impersonation or phishing; Letov said he intended to credit the original project and expand access.
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