Hacker News: tempo23058https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tempo23058Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:28:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by tempo23058 in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"]]>"Long before the United States began accusing other countries of stealing ideas, the U.S. government encouraged intellectual piracy to catch up with England’s technological advances. According to historian Doron Ben-Atar, in his book, Trade Secrets, “the United States emerged as the world's industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovations from Europe.”

Everyone is a thief.

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