Not that odd. About 5 years ago a certain subsidiary of a megacorp chaired by Uncle Rupert ripped about 60% of one of our sites (including the bugs). Pursuing

Not that odd. About 5 years ago a certain subsidiary of a megacorp chaired by Uncle Rupert ripped about 60% of one of our sites (including the bugs). Pursuing it became such a circus that after a time our CEO decided the effort was better spent improving our product. This turned out to be a good choice in the end as the impostors went nowhere and we went on to capture > 50% of the market. Edit: Sayeth PG: "The more slavishly someone copies you, the less dangerous they probably are." Experience indicates this is nearly universally true, and today we devote considerably more resources to out-marketing, partnering with or acquiring businesses with winning points of difference.