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Comment by segmondy

1 year 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.

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CharlieDigital  1 year 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  1 year ago

    So 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.