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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by danielfoster on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:45PM (#19722803)
Copying as a business model is pretty shitty as is copying legitimate IP. But if Company B can execute a similar concept faster and better than Company A, that's ultimately better for society.

This situation looks very egregious though.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by GrinningFool on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:49PM (#19723337)
> But if Company B can execute a similar concept faster and better than Company A, that's ultimately better for society.

Only in the short term. In the longer term, it may no longer be worth the risk for any Company A to begin in the first place.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by mcv on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @09:43AM (#19728466)
Will they be able to maintain and improve the code the way the people who wrote it will? The risk is that Company B may be selling something they don't fully understand.
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