if you don't like this thing we're talking about, why didn't you do anything to stop this other tangentially related thing that happened a long time ago?

I'm not even sure what you are describing makes sense. our supermarket sells hood brand milk, as well as their own private label milk. however the private label version is made at the hood factory using hood milk. in this case, I'm pretty sure the people at Hood don't care which one you buy since they get paid for making the "ripoff" brand.

your example would be fitting if Apple made their own clone of epic's app, but paid epic to do it