Is it just me or are other companies copying much of maids tech without giving any acknowledgement or credit?
Came across this from Storj.
Introducing KFS: a local file store inspired by Kademlia” @storjproject Introducing KFS: a local file store inspired by Kademlia | by Storj Labs | Medium
Farmers, kademlia, s-buckets… blatant rip off or just coincidence?
Immitation is a good sign: that others realise that MaidSafe are on the right track with SAFEnetwork.
Some is taken from this project (‘farming’ was suggested in this forum by a community member and adopted by MaidSafe), some is probably just a known solution to certain kinds of problem, but not to worry IMO. So long as we get a SAFEnetwork 
Agreed, imitation is a proof of the value
What is a shame though is when credit is not given where credit is due.
I was reading IOTA whitepaper a while back, and same there, the tangle concept was eeringly similar to the Safenetwork.