Did Adobe Steal Kuler Idea From COLOURlovers?

When Adobe launched Kuler, its palette creation tool where you can rate, tag and share palettes, the whole thing felt a little too shady for one Darius A. Monsef. Monsef is the founder of COLOURlovers, an extremely similar color & community site founded in 2004 and in this piece on the COLOURlovers blog, Monsef compares the two right down to the grayscale site design and the fact that color is spelled with a “u”…but he says Adobe disagrees:

I’m a huge fan of Adobe.