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Can’t Amazon just pay Stack Overflow and use the tool they’ve built and license instead of stealing their design and UI and workflow for probably more money?

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StackExchange has lots of sites (https://stackexchange.com/sites). Could they just create a site under the stackexchange network?

LibreOffice also runs a Stack Exchange clone, actually a fork of the older open-source SE codebase I believe. It's horrible - no real experts frequent the forums. But the lack of some SE features highlight them. For one, I don't ever see if anyone replied to my questions or left a comment on my answers. I do get an email, but that is easily missed and destroys the ability to have a conversation. Because I'm always checking some site on the SE network for other things, I always see notifications there.

Another missing SE feature is the Hot Network Questions. I used to hate that feature, it would distract me to no end. But now I see how it attracts people to new SE sites that they might have expertise in but otherwise not know about. I do see the need that it fill now.

> stealing their design and UI and workflow

I don't think they own those things and therefore they cannot be stolen.

You can steal ideas to which one doesn’t have a legal right.

The idea here a discussion forum where people with technical queries can ask for help and those with experience can offer help?

The idea sounds older than the internet -- what is Stack Overflow's claim to originality here (with all due respect) that AWS is stealing?

The answers on Stack Overflow are frequently dated, and the most interesting questions and content gets locked.

I go to stack overflow if I want to read the workarounds and fixes that worked for the problems of 2014, and similar questions from today that get locked for being duplicates.

Why do they need to when they already had the internal tool to fork?

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