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But they are using functionally equivalent formulas and Coke is still fine.
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if coke did not have deep pockets, it would have gone under without this protection.
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there are a million different manufacturers of, for example, hot dogs, and those hot dogs basically taste all the same to everyone, and yet they're all making basically identical hotdogs and doing fine
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But none of them would end up becoming Coca Cola. At least not just by selling hot dogs.
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