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copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don't understand the issue with. Except, they don't just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and
by seiji 11y ago
copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don't understand the issue with.
Except, they don't just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and companies wholesale (interface, API, UI, user interaction model). How is that not bad?
- gnaritas 11y agoHow is it bad? Business doesn't have to be original.
- pavlov 11y agoThere are plenty of legal protections for corporate IP: patents, copyrights, trade secrets... If an aspect of a business can't be protected, competitors are free to copy it. Consider a small coffee shop. Are they allowed to write the customer's name on the cup? That's clearly not an original idea, they copied it from a bigger competitor. Should it be forbidden?
- peterjancelis 11y agoI love how everybody in Silicon Valley claims ideas don't matter, only execution does, then hate on the company that is taking that maxim to its ultimate conclusion.
- ThomPete 11y agoExactly!
- lmm 11y agoAs a European they're adding a lot of value for me, by making useful products available for me. Don't like your products being copied? Stop making them US-only. I would use the "real thing" if I could.
- stock_toaster 11y agoWith the recent "death" of safe harbor in Europe, I can only assume it will become more pervasive, as it gets harder for silicon valley startups to do business internationally (at least until they are large enough to afford multi-presence).
- ThomPete 11y agoSo when italian restaurants copy each other it's bad? Not sure I understand the issue.