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Re:Ask HN: Copying already existing product and making it be... by templar_muse on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:18AM (#17678100)
Whereas no one would openly admit to copying a product and naming that company publicly - it could be said that many products were birthed from different perceptions of a solution from a given problem space. Which, by virtue of convergent evolution though common customer requirements/user stories and focus groups, along with a standardisation of UX practices, end up with a largely overlapping feature base.
Re:Ask HN: Copying already existing product and making it be... by sbr464 on Saturday August 04, 2018 @03:14AM (#17685776)
I think it happens a lot with forks or seeds of similar projects like you mention,

  Sugar crm > vtiger crm
  m0n0wall > pfsense/freenas
I do think some products rely on copying the entire ui/ux a little too heavily. Although with standardization like you mention as well may become less of an issue