> why did you steal all their intellectual property? Just as a side note the American industrial revolution was built on intellectual property theft [1]. So wa

> why did you steal all their intellectual property? Just as a side note the American industrial revolution was built on intellectual property theft [1]. So was the Byzantine empire [2]. The British empire (and it’s tea production) also did well out of IP theft [3]. [1] https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-europe https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Byzantine_Empire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_i... [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fortune https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fortune