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Is this any different than signing a contract that you don't know the terms to? If an entrepreneur signs an agreement with a VC that has obscure clauses hidden
by smokeyj 10y ago
Is this any different than signing a contract that you don't know the terms to? If an entrepreneur signs an agreement with a VC that has obscure clauses hidden deep in legalese - that doesn't mean the terms no longer apply. It doesn't matter if there's a billion dollars on the line - there is no 'whoops'.
- crispyambulance 10y agoBut there are "whoops". Lawyers gotta eat too!
- dwaltrip 10y agoNo, the whole point of this discussion is that those deeply hidden, "tricky" clauses don't always hold up in court.
- Natanael_L 10y agoLet people opt in to the court system, and feel free to tell people they should always do so. But sometimes people really do know what they're doing with the code. Courts are slower than code, let the experts opt out.
- zyxley 10y ago> Let people opt in to the court system You can't "opt in" to a system that exerts coercive power (in the dictionary-definition sense) over everyone in a jurisdiction. You are already in. The system will not let you out, because that would interfere with other civil and criminal processes (for example, bankruptcy proceedings) and in doing so harm society as a whole.
- programmarchy 10y agoThe belief that a coercive monopoly is beneficial to society is a delusion of religious proportions.