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>Companies have been known to talk about expensive and complicated features or options in order to get people trying to copy their success to waste time and mon
by blotter_paper 8y ago
>Companies have been known to talk about expensive and complicated features or options in order to get people trying to copy their success to waste time and money on something for which there is no actual demand.
Anyone know of a specific documented example of this? I'm not really doubting, just interested.
- tobilg 8y agoI think their first startup was an eBay clone called alando.de which was later sold to eBay when they entered the German market (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwer-Brüder#Alando https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwer-Brüder#Alando in German)
- blotter_paper 8y agoThanks, but I think you're supporting a different claim by OP. I'm asking about the spread of disinformation to derail the development efforts of clones, not the creation of clones.