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Does this mean that in India, if a big company likes a startup they can just clone their product? It's has to be cheaper than acquiring.

• MichaelApproved 11y ago
  In many cases, cloning is the easy part. Building the community of customers is where the real challenge is. Companies are often acquired for their customer base, not their IT. Buy out price calculation is done on a cost per user.
  • 99_00 11y ago
    But what about the products who's value isn't in their user base?
    • MichaelApproved 11y ago
      What's an example of that?
      • 99_00 11y ago
        A compression algorithm.
• quadrangle 11y ago
  You mean like how it works in the U.S. already? Yeah. But what does that have to do with this news about software patents? ;)
• nileshtrivedi 11y ago
  EU doesn't have software patents either. Even US law is now turning around (see Alice case).