The thing is, there is a solid community-positive reason to allow 1:1 clones. Or there should be. What it should be encouraging is the formation of new compani

The thing is, there is a solid community-positive reason to allow 1:1 clones. Or there should be. What it should be encouraging is the formation of new companies whose only product is the clone; they don't have the product development overhead when they're setting out their stall. Those companies can then use the cloned design as a cashflow springboard for their own designs as a second phase. There is nothing wrong with that as a business model. However, that's not what we see. What we see is clones being denigrated as valueless rip-offs, so people who might otherwise get into business by that route are dissuaded from doing so. That attitude is absolutely reinforced by blog posts like this. Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.