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Re:Melinda Gates: Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein l... by yodon on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:16AM (#30556726)
This is how innovation works. New ideas build off previous ideas. Companies launch products after seeing what else is in the market. The legal system determines when this is an allowed and when it isn't, that's why that legal system exists.

If you have an idea that is so new, so unique, so different and unprecedented that no one else has ever had a similar idea or done something remotely similar, there's almost certainly something profoundly wrong with it.

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Re:Melinda Gates: Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein l... by petilon on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:39PM (#30559373)
The legal system is imperfect, and that leaves plenty of opportunity for unscrupulous people to take advantage of other people's work. In popular opinion that may get called theft, even if it is not illegal.

> If you have an idea that is so new, so unique, so different and unprecedented...

Telephone, television etc. were pretty unique. Even the iPhone is so different from what came before it that it is truly innovative. Even people who know Apple is working on a phone, and expected something awesome, were blown away when the product was finally revealed. That's innovation.

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