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With those terms, they can buy a bug, report it to Apple, collect the $1m, and be off the hook to pay out the remaining payments. It seems to me this makes it m
by joshbetz 7y ago
With those terms, they can buy a bug, report it to Apple, collect the $1m, and be off the hook to pay out the remaining payments. It seems to me this makes it much riskier to go to the black market than people here realize.
- grugq 7y agoYes, because that is exactly the sort of behavior that a business would engage in. Screwing over their suppliers and demonstrating that they offer no value whatsoever. How would that make any sense? It is ludicrous.
- Twisell 7y agoWould be a nice pivot for patent troll companies. In a world where profit is king the question is not why, but when?
- tptacek 7y agoA nice pivot for patent companies would be somehow generating the connections and reputation to participate as brokers in this super-insular and highly technical marketplace, and then burn all that work down to fuck over an individual researcher for pocket change?