Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by blotter_paper on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:23PM (#19721337)

>Companies have been known to talk about expensive and complicated features or options in order to get people trying to copy their success to waste time and money on something for which there is no actual demand.

Anyone know of a specific documented example of this? I'm not really doubting, just interested.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by tobilg on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:40PM (#19722122)

I think their first startup was an eBay clone called alando.de which was later sold to eBay when they entered the German market (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwer-Brüder#Alando in German)

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by blotter_paper on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:48PM (#19722829)

Thanks, but I think you're supporting a different claim by OP. I'm asking about the spread of disinformation to derail the development efforts of clones, not the creation of clones.

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