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That's just slang! You can't actually steal an idea! Once someone has made it possible for the idea to be shared -- even if they wrote it down and locked it i
by wildjim 16y ago
That's just slang! You can't actually steal an idea!
Once someone has made it possible for the idea to be shared -- even if they wrote it down and locked it in their safe -- then the information is already potentially accessible!
Breaking-in to someone's home to steal the paper you wrote your idea on is explicitly the theft, and getting the idea written on it is a side-effect.
- tvon 16y agoLooking at the OED definition: http://is.gd/eSaRt http://is.gd/eSaRt first example: > dishonestly pass off (another person‘s ideas) as one’s own: accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying