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I wonder if one day we'll know of all the stories of people who got wined-dined-fucked by the large corporations who then release their own version of an existing product.

>>WrtCdE+(OP)
I doubt it. I've hinted at in comments here in the past, but I have one such story. It's a footnote, at best, in MS's history, and a thing for a now-dead product, but they turned what I thought was a cool product into their own thing then disappeared it through internal MS politics.

I don't tell the story in any details since I don't want those details getting back to the real me and having a negative impact on my career for whatever reason.

>>banana+n2
How could a gigantic corporation stealing your idea be seen as negative?

>>solark+74
The word “stealing” is a big hint

>>solark+74
I don’t think it has to do with the corporation that did the stealing but more other corporations that might infer things from the retelling.

Plenty of other corporations, of varying sizes, want to steal ideas.

Comments on the internet can be interpreted in a myriad ways.

>>WrtCdE+(OP)
VCs and even incubators do this all the time. It's one of their primary jobs to fish for information under the guise of helping you.

>>colejo+A7
He means "seen as a black mark for you", not for the company.