"It seems that Adobe's programmers were swept along with the excitement of creating something as innovative as a voice manipulator, and ignored the ethical dile

"It seems that Adobe's programmers were swept along with the excitement of creating something as innovative as a voice manipulator, and ignored the ethical dilemmas brought up by its potential misuse," he told the BBC." Is there a name for the fallacy of giving the first person to market all the credit for an idea whose time has, essentially, come, with or without them? Surely this is an idea obvious enough that, had Adobe not done (and publicized!) this, someone else would? Edit: sense