Im sorry but i cant agree with you.. thats because not all of us have talent and i know we all have to start somewhere, but where ? If there is no example.. what we need is copy at first to develop skills.. even the great painter have to lear to copy first before they make their own painting.. it doesn't have to be the painting but also the technic of making the painting
What we can't do is completely copying othrs work.. and take the credit for us.. to that i can agree.. but if you copy just to improve your skills and not take the credit for it.. thats fine for me
Agreed. This is the basis of open source software and creative commons work. Ideas don't spring forth from a vacuum. Ideas are the result of a cultural experience, i.e., there are no lone inventors.
While I can agree with the point about copying without attribution, I disagree that copying an idea is inherently bad. Notice how 900+ cryptocurrencies came around after the first one, Bitcoin. Every successor offers an improvement on the original, some starting with original Bitcoin code with improvements.
The key difference there is that the successful ones make improvements. There's also a million tokens out there that didn't make any improvements or come up with any better use cases and are pretty much worthless. I'm specifically referring to people attempting to copy something and not even understanding what they were trying to copy.