{"id":75036,"date":"2009-12-10T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/1057117268.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-10T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T21:02:00","slug":"dilbert-explains-why-just-copying-others-is-a-dumb-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/75036","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert Explains Why Just Copying Others Is A Dumb Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common claims that is brought up by patent system defenders when we discuss the idea of a greatly limited or eliminated patent system is that it doesn&#8217;t make sense for anyone to innovate, because others will just copy them.  Of course, historically we have plenty of evidence that this isn&#8217;t true &#8212; and it makes sense if you think about it logically.  Just copying something doesn&#8217;t give anyone a reason to buy from you &#8212; and depending on the product, copying them will take time, combined with the additional time to even let people know you&#8217;ve got a product in the market.  By that time, the real innovator may be much further ahead.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=smbell\">Steven<\/a> points out that a <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2009-12-09\/\" >recent Dilbert cartoon makes this point perfectly<\/a>:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2009-12-09\/\" title=\"Dilbert.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/000000000\/00000000\/0000000\/000000\/70000\/5000\/900\/75990\/75990.strip.gif\" width=500 border=\"0\" alt=\"Dilbert.com\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/1057117268.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/1057117268.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091209\/1057117268&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c6483a605b0cdb7306c3d250497481f1&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c6483a605b0cdb7306c3d250497481f1&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=p12XHJ2ERCI:E-y-UyRT_8E:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=p12XHJ2ERCI:E-y-UyRT_8E:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=p12XHJ2ERCI:E-y-UyRT_8E:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/p12XHJ2ERCI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common claims that is brought up by patent system defenders when we discuss the idea of a greatly limited or eliminated patent system is that it doesn&#8217;t make sense for anyone to innovate, because others will just copy them. Of course, historically we have plenty of evidence that this isn&#8217;t true &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}