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> you don't be able to stream to a Raspberry Pi connected to a speaker without violating a patent Nobody is gonna send you a c&d for personal use
by dmoy 5y ago
> you don't be able to stream to a Raspberry Pi connected to a speaker without violating a patent
Nobody is gonna send you a c&d for personal use
- monocasa 5y agoWill they kill an open source project?
- TrueDuality 5y agoIn general yes, companies have no qualms about killing open source projects when they get a whiff of patent infringement. AFAIK Sonos hasn't done that to any projects as of today but that doesn't mean they wouldn't.
- squarefoot 5y agoThey sure are on par with Google in caring not that much about their users. https://www.classaction.org/news/sonos-docked-with-class-action-after-forced-phase-out-of-cr100-speaker-controller https://www.classaction.org/news/sonos-docked-with-class-act...
- praptak 5y ago> Nobody is gonna send you a c&d for personal use Practically, no. Theoretically they could. I believe there's no "personal use" exemption on patents under most law systems (there was one in UK maybe?).
- jrockway 5y agoI think the "personal use" exemption is twofold: nobody will know you're doing it, and if they find out, you don't have any money. Companies sue Google because they are LOADED with cash, which they want. Your lifetime value rounds down to zero at that scale.