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Originally Posted by
John Layton
I would only be competing were my aim to create and place a similar product on the market myself.
Hmmm...then again:
But to the extent that I am occasionally successful in creating something I might otherwise purchase from a person or company creating/marketing this same product, meaning that they might lose my business...then, yes - I suppose you could say I would still be "competing." Then again, if this were the basis for the definition of competition...then anytime I do anything that I could instead pay someone else to do for me (like fixing my car, cooking supper, or making a print), I would be competing with them.
To take the above concept back to ground zero...maybe we could say that Neicephore Niepce, who created the first (recorded) photograph all those years ago, inadvertently spawned a seemingly bottomless pit of "competition!"
(...time to crawl back under my car - with apologies to the local auto mechanic!)
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