Word: copycatting
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Makers of the software for personal computers have also been suffering from slower than expected sales, ruinous competition and an excess of copycat products. Among the victims are two industry giants. VisiCorp, marketer of VisiCalc, a pioneering business program, has shelved plans to create its own software, cut its work force to 72 from a peak of 250 and sold the licensing rights for its troubled VisiOn package to Control Data. Another former pacesetter, Digital Research, has backed away from its ambitious move into the retail market and is focusing again on programs that are built into computers...
...record-setting heist last Easter bore striking similarities to last weekend's robbery. "It might be that there is a link," said a Scotland Yard spokesman, "or it might be that it is a copycat." The gang that raided the forbidding Security Express warehouse, known as "Fort Knox," seized a lone guard in the early hours of the morning, trussed up seven other employees as they arrived for work, and poured gasoline over one of their captives' legs. Once the security vault was open, the thieves loaded their booty into three waiting vans, painted yellow to resemble those...
...Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black music fanatics rushing to cry copycat, rather it was stripped-down, mechanized, hermetic music that was exhilarating despite its coldness...
...technological skills, Japanese science still suffers from a copycat syndrome. The Japanese often feel it is better to mimic or borrow than originate. Says Electrical Engineer Michiyuki Uenohara, director of Nippon Electric's research labs: "The label of imitator is valid-Japanese research is derivative...
...Japanese completely abandoning their old copycat tactics. One noteworthy case occurred with fiber optics, a rapidly expanding field in which glass fibers are used to transmit information in the form of laser light pulses. The Japanese breakthroughs came only after Corning Glass, a leader in fiber optics, made the mistake of applying for a Japanese patent. Since the patent process is open to public inspection, Japanese firms studied the U.S. company's approach as well as the subsequent work of Bell Labs, and then made their own innovative improvements. Japanese fiber optics are today as good...