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When patent trolls sue competitors for copying features we 're unhappy. When somebody copies "my idea" we 're unhappy.

What is a good solution? Copying but giving attribution?

How about "don't be that guy who complains that he wasn't given enough credit for his important inventions"?

Instead, go out and create great things. And then tell the story of how you triumphed by thinking hard and moving fast.

I see this as win-win for both companies. I never would have heard of Footpath if not for this news story. A good percentage of readers will now download Footpath and give it a try. That's an audience they wouldn't have had otherwise, and the lifetime revenue stream of a lift like that can be in the thousands to millions of dollars, depending on the size of Footpath's user base and their ability to monetize the traffic.

Meanwhile, us Strava users get a cool new functionality.

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