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Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?

Posted by samzenpus on from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

hype7 writes "The Harvard Business Review is running an article that's questioning the very premise of the Apple v Samsung case. From the article: 'It isn't the first time Apple has been involved in a high-stakes "copying" court case. If you go back to the mid-1990s, there was their famous "look and feel" lawsuit against Microsoft. Apple's case there was eerily similar to the one they're running today: "we innovated in creating the graphical user interface; Microsoft copied us; if our competitors simply copy us, it's impossible for us to keep innovating." Apple ended up losing the case. But it's what happened next that's really fascinating. Apple didn't stop innovating at all.'"

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  1. Steve Jobs (RIP) was fond of this axiom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Good artists copy. Great artists steal. And at Apple, we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

    [Source: Isaac's authorized biography]

    Apparently he never liked it if someone else followed this axiom, though.

  2. Re:The Chinese... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You kid, but this is actually important.

    Supposedly we live in a "Global Economy" now.

    China manufactures a lot of goods for the US. Now ask yourself, what does the US have to offer China, and the rest of our world? Intellectual Property, which is only reinforced by our nations laws? Our Lawyers, which mostly are specialized in US law? Our MBAs?

    If we hardly manufacture anything now and IP is our primary "resource", and foreign countries do not need to respect our IP, then what exactly do we have to trade for? What do we offer the world?

  3. Re:Yeah they did stop innovating by __aaqvdr516 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How can something be 100% stable and have 2 kernel panics?

    If you exclude "sketchy third-party" drivers, you could knock every BSOD that I've experienced with Windows off the table.

    With Gnome taking a bit of a dive, Unity a bit on the rise, and Metro just starting out, these are certainly interesting times. Just grab some popcorn and see what happens.