There it is! Design! Creativity is meant to either be kept to yourself or shared with everyone. I don't support plagiarism, but If proper credit is given, (Read, tell who/where you got the idea from), it should be freely used. That includes design patents. BTW
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IT, people are using our products without paying for them. If they did pay for them we would have had R10 million in sales instead of having to sink R5 million into the business and spend R1 million so far on lawsuits.Originally Posted by czc
What? The point of all patents is to prevent people from profiting from something you designed. If you invent/create something, why should someone else be allowed to simply copy it and sell it as their own?
The chair analogy is also stupid. If someone builds a chair, you like the design and build your own chair, you're putting in a pretty similar amount of effort, even though you may have stolen the actual design.
Copying a game is reproducing in a couple of clicks what took millions of dollars, hundreds of staff and years of work. It's not comparable; piracy isn't stealing an idea or a design, its stealing an entire finished product. To use your chair analogy, its the equivalent of walking into the guy's chair store, picking up one of the chairs and walking out without paying.
It's not like you played Assassin's Creed and were like "this is cool" and coded a copy for yourself.
If you're going to make stupid points, at least try to argue them well.
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