A knock off is a copy, a cheap knock off is a cheap copy.
There is nothing inherent in knockoff that says it doesn’t work. That would be a fake.
In medicine it’s quite common that cheaper copies or knockoffs are identical to the original product, and those are very common to become available when patents have expired.
This is usually not the case for imitations
So what? That doesn’t make them not imitations or copies, and it’s called an exact copy and is not unusual, and it’s still a copy. No matter how accurate good and efficient, doesn’t change that it’s a copy of an original heavily researched product.
These new weight loss medicines are Nobel Price material, no doubt it’s not the knock offs that will get the Nobel Price for copying what someone else did.
A distro is way more than just package managers, it’s also the level of testing before deployment, and a shitload of configuration and design decisions.
That said, everything from one distro can generally be configured to work like it does in another distro, but it’s not always easy.
If you want to try Linux, jump right into it, if there’s something you don’t like, maybe another Distro or DE has fixed that exact thing, and it’s easy to swap.
They are absolutely 100% imitations copied from an original. Just because the imitation is good or even perfect, doesn’t make it any less an imitation or knockoff.
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There are also knockoffs of Louis Vuitton products that are hard to identify even by experts. Louis Vuitton products are often not that expensive to make, so a knockoff can easily be cheaper, and have similar quality.
But disregarding how close it comes, even if it’s identical it’s still a knockoff, and it will always be considered “cheap” because it’s not an original product.
I find it strange that the perception is that these medicine copies are not knockoffs because they are well made??? Because in medicine that’s very common, is widely sold as cheaper alternatives, and generally has the exact same effect as the original. And it’s perfectly legitimate once the patents expire.
they’re the same drug,
Of course they are, that’s what it means, it’s copied from the original.
There are also fakes that do not contain real medicine, those are not knockoffs, because they do NOT copy the medicine, only the packaging. The knockoffs are not decidedly fake because they actually work.
That man should either be committed to an asylum, or be in jail. Because he is either insane or a conman.
When Trump claims he wants to lower taxes, you’re an idiot if you think it means for you. Unless you are in the 1%.
And just because you make more than most people you know, doesn’t mean you’re in the 1%.
I bet he means his wife and parents.
Melania is fundamentally an illegal emigrant, as she was allowed on false pretense on an Einstein Visa.
I wonder what corruption was behind that?
The MAGA crowd has chosen what they despise as their leader. The parallels to Hitler are endless.
Absolutely the MAGA dream is back to slavery and women not having the right to vote.
End women’s suffrage!
If you make a poll about ending women’s suffrage, most will actually be for it!
Probably because they think it has to do with suffering, but funny anyway.
Functioning is contained in malfunctioning.
So only if that counts.
Exactly, and Christ the Apple vs Samsung on Samsung copying the iPad “design” was ridiculous!
I don’t know if that was what you meant, but that’s what I immediately thought of.
I can understand that having your own copy is nice, especially if the service is closed for some reason.
I just don’t bother doing that anymore, I prefer browsing my library on GOG instead of a file-manager.
Being a moron is not a requirement for being Republican, but it helps.
🤔 …
Nah who am I kidding? Og course it’s a requirement.
Details details. 😋
The good guy was Hitler and the Nazis, they were always friendly and waving to everybody.
/s
Still Trump claim Russia is totally without blame for invading another peaceful country. And Putin is really a nice guy who is just misunderstood.
So this is perfectly in line with MAGA crazy mental gymnastics.
No I absolutely expected it to be sarcasm.
I read the part, and that’s quite funny and fitting.
I don’t get it? I searched defense on that page and got nothing.
Is it about being absurd?
Logically it favors the rich, just like every other aspect of society.
So I guess it’s no more insane than so many other aspects of society, like how Enron Musk can get paid more by Tesla than every single worker working there.
I agree, I just find it strange that that is the perception of medicine that is a knockoff of an original, because that’s very common, is widely sold, and generally has the exact same effect as the original.
A knockoff is also used for a cheaper copy of an original. Cheaper as in price, not necessarily quality, although that is often the case, it doesn’t have to be. As is usually NOT the case when it regards medicine. The cheaper copy (knockoff) can usually be used interchangeably.
There are also knockoffs of Louis Vuitton products that are hard to identify even by experts. Louis Vuitton products are often not that expensive to make, so a knockoff can easily be cheaper, and have similar quality.
But disregarding how close it comes, it will always be considered cheap because it’s a knockoff and not an original product.