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by vertex-four 2122 days ago
Nobody comes up with any ideas independently - Uber weren’t the first to think of an app for taxis.
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You're either interpreting what I said entirely too literally or maybe I was a bit unclear. If they saw somebody else's implementation of "chapter delivery of ebooks by email" online and then proceeded to roll their own with zero credit to the original creator, that is ethically WRONG. It scares me as a developer myself to see how many people are totally okay with the Mark Pincus approach.