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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 07:08 PM EDT
Someone needs to point out that that scenario gets even worse... the company
then patents the marketing points.

So they move from technology to marketing, and then to litigating over stupid
things like colors and shapes.

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The facts are
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT
"If companies were able to wait for their rivals to come up with successful
devices, then rush out copycat versions with confusingly similar features, there
would be less money spent on R&D and more on marketing."

Nope. The world does not work that way. Mindless ideological capitalists like
to try and justify their ideas like that. Copyright and patent maximalists
claim that all the time. IT IS FALSE. THINGS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

Creators create. Copying enables creativity. It does NOT stifle it. Real
creators, real inventors, the real peoole who actually create new things and
invent wonderful new things do not do it beacuse of money. If you think
otherwise then you have no clue what real creativity is and I pity your
ignorance. People who think that can never see the beauty and wonder of the
universe.

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  • The facts are - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 09:09 PM EDT
  • The facts are - Authored by: scav on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 09:15 AM EDT
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