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Re:What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate) by jbri on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @08:44PM (#2168459)
Do you seriously think that a copycat service beating out and killing off the actual source of innovation is somehow a good thing?
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Re:What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate) by jbri on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @08:52PM (#2168501)
In case you missed it, innovation is expensive.

If a copycat service can immediately clone the innovator's work and provide the exact same service, then they are likely to outcompete them, because they have much smaller costs.

To suggest that such freeloading should be encouraged removes any incentive to try and innovate in such areas.

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Re:What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate) by jbri on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @09:07PM (#2168547)
You make something innovative, truck along carving out your niche for a few years, then a big company rips off your system and uses its massive marketing budget to crush you. Does not getting to massive-multinational stage in a few years mean you've done something wrong?

Or are you suggesting that it's only okay because they're doing this to Google instead of a little guy?

Re:What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate) by recoiledsnake on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:40PM (#2168866)
It's not necessarily a bad thing. That's what happened to the original IBM PC and it made PCs cheaper and led to the PC revolution. Did it suck for IBM and Apple? Yes, but the benefit to the world was immense.