We copied half of British government, too. I never implied otherwise (in fact I specifically said it isn't national for me). Our thinking on intellectual proper

We copied half of British government, too. I never implied otherwise (in fact I specifically said it isn't national for me). Our thinking on intellectual property has evolved since the time before the invention of electrical power and it is possible to learn from failures. Are you suggesting once someone makes a mistake everyone else is entitled to do so as long as said person was enormously successful in part due to said mistake? Everybody here has been party to the explosion of technology and knowledge in mere years and yet we defend poor judgment by saying "well, the United States did it 200 years ago, so clearly we don't know all we should know about the morality?" The industrialization of the United States succeeded quickly for far more reasons than intellectual property.