you forgot that big companies also have option C: A) copy; B) buy; C) sue you're always violating some patents by IBM and the like, sometimes they don't want

you forgot that big companies also have option C: A) copy; B) buy; C) sue you're always violating some patents by IBM and the like, sometimes they don't want to compete with a product only to get you off the table... and sometimes they can do that easily Oh, and there is the enterprise variation (option D?): talk with the costumers and demand that they stop working with the competition