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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8909051" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Sal's Pizzeria is a bad example. To make it closer to a real example, Sal's Pizzeria would've been sharing not it's ovens and it's store-space, but the IDEA of Pizza as a form of flatbread with specific toppings put onto it in relative quantities... for 20 years.</p><p></p><p>And then unilaterally deciding that no one is allowed to make pizza as a type of flatbread with specific toppings put onto it in relative quantities could do so unless they paid Sal 25% of all income over $750,000 and the reverse authorization to use your recipes of flatbreads, sauces, toppings, and all other pizza-related ideas with no payments to you, the pizza innovator.</p><p></p><p>That is what makes Sal's Pizzeria a parasite in this context. They invented pizza, everyone loves it, new pizza places showed up offering knock-off pizza for decades, and then some of them started to make enough money that Sal's is saying "You can't make Pizza anymore unless you abide by the new terms and give me a slice."</p><p></p><p>Pun intended.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8909051, member: 6796468"] Sal's Pizzeria is a bad example. To make it closer to a real example, Sal's Pizzeria would've been sharing not it's ovens and it's store-space, but the IDEA of Pizza as a form of flatbread with specific toppings put onto it in relative quantities... for 20 years. And then unilaterally deciding that no one is allowed to make pizza as a type of flatbread with specific toppings put onto it in relative quantities could do so unless they paid Sal 25% of all income over $750,000 and the reverse authorization to use your recipes of flatbreads, sauces, toppings, and all other pizza-related ideas with no payments to you, the pizza innovator. That is what makes Sal's Pizzeria a parasite in this context. They invented pizza, everyone loves it, new pizza places showed up offering knock-off pizza for decades, and then some of them started to make enough money that Sal's is saying "You can't make Pizza anymore unless you abide by the new terms and give me a slice." Pun intended. [/QUOTE]
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