If you look at the America's Cup racing yachts, each competitor takes pictures, videos and anything thing else they can from the winner (and even 2nd and 3rd place). They analyze it for the design improvements, some times they copy, some times just use it as an example. Every good engineer does this. People use code examples all the time as the foundation of their applications, if it's done correctly there is no plagerism, is just natural growth.
Remember when a competitors make statements to others look bad, there is always an agenda... when the competitor is in business the agenda is $$$$, which makes is just more adverstising or hype or misdirection. Advancement does not just spring fully grown like Minerva from Jupiter's head (or ironically Athena from Zeus' head).
Why is grass "green"? Because human beings who speak the english language arbitrarilty chose the collection of sounds making up the word "green" to represent the color of grass. Any time you can ask "why" and answer "because", this is relevant. This is not how; how would be given that a concept like "green" exists, how would you get a new thing to be "green"? Using the discovery that chlorophyll create "green" in plants, gives an option to how. Science answers why a lot, jut because someone choses to ignore this in a philosophic discussion does not invalidate the observation. Not understanding the correct question does not differentiate how from why, just that the understanding is incorrect. Remember 42 is only the answer to what is 6 times 9 if you lose track somewhere in the middle.
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If you look at the America's Cup racing yachts, each competitor takes pictures, videos and anything thing else they can from the winner (and even 2nd and 3rd place). They analyze it for the design improvements, some times they copy, some times just use it as an example. Every good engineer does this. People use code examples all the time as the foundation of their applications, if it's done correctly there is no plagerism, is just natural growth. Remember when a competitors make statements to others look bad, there is always an agenda... when the competitor is in business the agenda is $$$$, which makes is just more adverstising or hype or misdirection. Advancement does not just spring fully grown like Minerva from Jupiter's head (or ironically Athena from Zeus' head).
Why is grass "green"? Because human beings who speak the english language arbitrarilty chose the collection of sounds making up the word "green" to represent the color of grass. Any time you can ask "why" and answer "because", this is relevant. This is not how; how would be given that a concept like "green" exists, how would you get a new thing to be "green"? Using the discovery that chlorophyll create "green" in plants, gives an option to how. Science answers why a lot, jut because someone choses to ignore this in a philosophic discussion does not invalidate the observation. Not understanding the correct question does not differentiate how from why, just that the understanding is incorrect. Remember 42 is only the answer to what is 6 times 9 if you lose track somewhere in the middle.