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Comment on Ask HN: When is it ok to copy/steal an idea?

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The line is innovation. If you actually bring something new to the table people close to the original idea will still say cheap knockoff, but most won't. Just look at the phone to blackberry to iphone progression no one considers any of them to be knockoffs or stolen ideas even though they largely innovated directly on what had come before.

Totally, that is one sad thing about a lot of European startups. They take one idea but don't innovate it.

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