Yesterday Instagram announced that it has 200 million users for stories, which exceeds Snapchat’s 160 million users from their S-1 filing. Never mind that nobody outside these companies knows what those user definitions really mean or how to compare them. This has nonetheless rekindled a debate about copying that periodically arises in the tech industry. For a previous instance, take the outrage over Rocket Internet’s copying of US businesses for Europe and also Asia. If you want to go much f...

Yesterday Instagram announced that it has 200 million users for stories, which exceeds Snapchat’s 160 million users from their S-1 filing. Never mind that nobody outside these companies knows what those user definitions really mean or how to compare them. This has nonetheless rekindled a debate about copying that periodically arises in the tech industry. For a previous instance, take the outrage over Rocket Internet’s copying of US businesses for Europe and also Asia. If you want to go much f...