Philosophically speacking, does not matter if your product was stolen by a
poor fishman or a multimiliardare concern if you still don't know about...

best, Vasile



On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Drew Vassallo wrote:

> >If I'll copy your product I'll try to
> >improve performances and not only to sell something.
> >You'll not be pourless if the same product designed by you is manufactured
> >also in Taiwan without to know that.
>
> This is only true in a perfect world.  In our capitalist economy, people
> generally try to take good ideas from small or independent companies and
> make them cheaper to replace whatever product is currently on the market.
> Vasile, not everyone is interested in improving the performance of
> something.  They're interested in how much MONEY they can make off of it.
> And the easier it is for them to develop the product, the more money they
> can make.  Patents?  If you're a very small company or a private individual,
> they don't mean diddly.
>
> If a fish salesman in Taiwan wanted to copy my idea, then that's fine.  I'm
> not worried about that.  But, if a larger, more established business in the
> market wants to steal my product and use their position in the market to
> make my idea cheaper and flashier, then you bet I'm worried.  ANY security I
> can get is to my advantage as a small manufacturer in this case.
>
> --Andrew
>
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