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> If you want to fling patent claims at a company that developed and released a great piece of code, removing the code from your business seems like a reasonabl
by sgift 9y ago
> If you want to fling patent claims at a company that developed and released a great piece of code, removing the code from your business seems like a reasonable price to pay.
That seems to be the main point: Do you agree that you shouldn't be able to sue a company whose open source code you use or do you not? Everything else is just .. noise?
- rhizome 9y agoWhat if you bought a car that exploded and sued the car manufacturer, and then you weren't allowed to own or drive any of that manufacturer's cars anymore?
- shadow_banned 9y agoBought versus free
- f_hckr_news 9y agoBought versus 100% free.....
- rrix2 9y agoCars are just computers with wheels, and are bound by similar restrictions. So let's amend the scenario: The car you bought gets in to a car accident because of software running on the car, which is licensed to you in similarly revocable terms to the shrink wrap currently on the market. Both this software and React are software licensed to you in this case, should you be legally disallowed from ever purchasing a car from that company again? What if it's a cloud service that powers the car in some fashion which you want to sue over?
- LambdaComplex 9y ago> If you want to fling patent claims at a company that developed and released a great piece of code, removing the code from your business seems like a reasonable price to pay. If that code were free software? No, that doesn't sound anywhere near reasonable.