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> Not if you are a company worth $1.6 trillion dollars. A million dollars is a million dollars even if the company is worth 100 trillion dollars. Expected con
by ffpip 6y ago
> Not if you are a company worth $1.6 trillion dollars.
A million dollars is a million dollars even if the company is worth 100 trillion dollars.
Expected contribution to legal defense costs of developers - $0
Current contribution for legal defense costs of developers- $1 million
- azinman2 6y agoYa but $1MM for a generic legal defense fund created and thus owned by GitHub (read: Microsoft) is pretty neutered. I’m sure their lawyers charge between $200-750/hr (pretty standard for a decent lawyer), so $1MM isn’t going to go very far. If they employ lawyers full time for this at 200-500k/yr, there won’t be many working on this team for very long. Defending a medium complexity case against a deep picker (RIAA) will easy surpass that, and that’s just a single case. The question is how can this be sustainable and not a trivial token?