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[โ€“] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

All innovation requires some level of copying. Einstein didn't pop into existence fully formed. Darwin's theories had precursors. There are 10 million designs for heat engines. Anyone complaining about "copying" is almost certainly mad they can't rent-seek. Yes attribution and compensation should be given to those that actually work on things. But 90% of this shit boils down to Trillion dollar company A mad that Billion dollar company B didn't pay them for "their" patent. (They bought it and the guys that actually wrote it up died 30 years ago.)

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This ๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿฝbut unironically. The number of burger-brains I've seen fuming over China "copying" or "stealing" technology...

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Exactly, ideas don't just form in a vacuum they necessarily build on existing ones.