"Samwer doesn't like the word clone. "It's a mistake to think that the idea is the decisive factor," he says. "Ideas are nothing special. There are thousands of

"Samwer doesn't like the word clone. "It's a mistake to think that the idea is the decisive factor," he says. "Ideas are nothing special. There are thousands of ideas. But of thousands of ideas, only one succeeds. And that's the real point." He's got a point there, the only real assertion I could see is that the "ideas" they copy aren't things like hey, lets make an online shop, but rather completely hashed out business models that already have an application for reverse engineering, etc. But as dispicable as people might think they are for what they do, I think its about time companies started thinking globally quicker, living in the EU, I don't want to wait years before I can use a service and the Samwer's provide the services the people want to use.