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It can simply be a form of risk-management by Dell/VCs. How likely is that Apple going to sue them? How likely the company going to succeed and deal with the is
by rvnx 7y ago
It can simply be a form of risk-management by Dell/VCs.
How likely is that Apple going to sue them?
How likely the company going to succeed and deal with the issue?
It's rarely black or white.
We have seen it with the case of Uber and the self-driving cars.
In their own words, they said they will reuse knowledge from ARM and Apple (including Desktop CPUs).
As public investor of Apple, yes I think it's a very legitimate question.
- dmix 7y agoOf course it's a legitimate question, it's an obvious question, which is why the CMO mentioned clean room building it and the founders having worked on a combined 100 patents. VC's do plenty of due-diligence, they don’t invest blindly when there’s such an obvious risk. The Uber case was quite rare and egregious. It's not as simple as working on similar stuff. Uber directly acquiring a company (well after raising hundreds of millions) made by someone who worked at Google to work on the exact same thing which is far riskier than working on a completely different product category you're building from scratch. But even then the case against Uber heavily relied on the fact he stole IP directly from company computers and used that as the base of the product.