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Wild take, copying matters. If you have a great idea, and no capital and I copy you and have more capital (money, social), I can deploy my capital to crush yo
by segmondy 2y ago
Wild take, copying matters. If you have a great idea, and no capital and I copy you and have more capital (money, social), I can deploy my capital to crush you in the market. This very idea that ideas don't matter is hogwash, you can say that idea alone is not enough, but it matters. This is why big companies sometimes get sued by the govt, they copy smaller companies ideas, add it into their already established product for free and stifle growth for the world.
- CharlieDigital 2y ago> If you have a great idea, and no capital and I copy you and have more capital (money, social), I can deploy my capital to crush you in the market This is precisely how our markets work and why we have a system of trademarks, patents, and copyright. Use those tools to your advantage if you are small.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoSo many people on sites like this hate patents and trademarks, but I have seen patents used in two ways: * In slapfights between huge companies that don't really matter. * To protect startups from copying. These things literally exist to protect startups.
- marcosdumay 2y agoI have never seen anybody succeed on that second usage, and I've seen a few people try. Patents protect the party with the most money to spend.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoYou have almost certainly seen that mechanism in action, even though you don't realize it. The most visible way that it works is through the sale of those patents to patent trolls (usually after the company has nothing left) and the resulting big-money lawsuits against big corporations that ripped them off.
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- slenk 2y agoThat is called capitalism. Like the word you used a lot.