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I hear you, but what's the alternative? Are you advocating for software patents? If you're just saying that an API or a website is copyrighted and can't be rip

I hear you, but what's the alternative? Are you advocating for software patents? If you're just saying that an API or a website is copyrighted and can't be ripped off verbatim, that sounds more reasonable to me. But still, it's trivial to copy but then make minor cosmetic changes (especially with AI). Then we're back to a very troublesome gray area.

jacquesm 3y ago
It all depends on what has been copied. If privileged info from the YC application was used they should be sued into the ground for that but I can't imagine that YC would ever let that happen. If they copied code, text or images from the product or webpages they should be slammed for that too. But if they just decided to clone the concept and did all the legwork themselves that would be a different matter. The fact that they infiltrated the OPs comms channels certainly doesn't make them look good.