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Have you considered that guy with $1M won't be willing to drop like $50k (2x your net worth) on a lawyer just to squash you? He must have possibility to earn $
by ozim 6y ago
Have you considered that guy with $1M won't be willing to drop like $50k (2x your net worth) on a lawyer just to squash you?
He must have possibility to earn $100k in process to do that. Well unless you really pissed him off.
If you earn $25k a year and he spends $50k in one year to take your cake. Well unless he really is your competitor that can make use of your defeat he still needs 2 years to get even. Then it probably is not easy money because there is always a risk he will not win. Maybe he can find better ways to earn more money than squashing some $25k guys.
- gerdesj 6y agoQuite. I run a company with roughly £1.25M turnover per annum, so seem to fit the $1M guy example. There is no way on earth that I would look at my "value" and compare it with a £50K "value" to decide on my legal "battle-worthiness." It is quite likely that we both have similar (to the same power of 10) insurance for whatever it is we are duking it out over. Anyway this is all a bit circumspect. Against a company with billions to play with? I'll just keep my head down and crack on and hope not to be noticed 8)
- 1_over_n 6y agoIt seems like the theme here is asymmetry in legal firepower & resources between entities. I do personally feel like that the asymmetry is smaller between elastic and AWS than the say an indie dev and a company with $1M revenue for various reasons. This doesn't mean that there still isn't a meaningful asymmetry between elastic and AWS.