Anecdotally I've noticed that people in the tech world seem to have a rather tenuous grasp on basic ethics when it comes to the difference between being inspire

Anecdotally I've noticed that people in the tech world seem to have a rather tenuous grasp on basic ethics when it comes to the difference between being inspired by product X versus shamelessly copying it. If you see some app/game/service and then proceed to make an alternate version without giving a shout-out or credit to the original, that's a pretty low class move.