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Re:How to be successful: steal ideas and copy people by jcamp on Sunday October 03, 2010 @09:32AM (#1752680)
I like this approach. Not because it gives you an easy start but because it forces you to look at a problem or business and think about how it could be done better.

You aren't really stealing ideas and copying people you are improving them. If you didn't the chance of success would be far slimmer. This is healthy capitalism. This process forces the other company to respond by improving and morphing. If they don't they risk becoming obsolete.

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Re:How to be successful: steal ideas and copy people by bediger on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:12AM (#1752833)
Re: "stealing ideas" vs "improving on them".

Doesn't your comclusion here go against the USA's entire full-court-press on maximal "intellectual property"? I mean, we've extended copyrights, we've allowed just about every vague pipe-dream to be patented, and we've actually criminalized reverse engineering in a lot of situations.

I sympathize with your viewpoint, but is that the direction we're heading? Are we heading in the right direction?

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