It's not that simple. It's just morally (and legally) wrong to copy someone else's idea and sell it as your own. Take, for example, the CRK Sebenza. Chris Reeve has worked long and hard perfecting the Sebenza design, streamlining the manufacturing process, and building an immense following. Then someone else comes along, sees it, likes it, and decides to copy it to cash in on the fame and success of the design. That's just wrong, that's stealing. That's taking business away from CRK, since there will be alot of people who are intrigued by a cheaper alternative to buying an actual Sebenza, and go that route instead. Now CRK has lost a sale, maybe a dozen, maybe hundreds if not thousands. Now CRK has to let some employees go because no one is buying Sebenzas. If it continues, CRK will have to shut their doors. Of course, it's not that bad in the knife community right now. CRK is doing a booming business, as are most other American based knifemaking companies. But look at nearly every other facet of the American consumer market, it's all imported. Chinesium hurts American business. But you can't get away from it, that's all there is anymore, because the American companies that used to make all our stuff are all out of business.

So every time you buy a Ganzo or other copy instead of a real Spyderco, Benchmade, Zero Tolerance, etc, guess what? You're helping put the American men and women who make the real ones out of a job.