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> and Xerox lost it it was a loss for xerox but a win for mankind. Many outcomes of Xerox became patent unencumbered
by jhoechtl 4y ago
> and Xerox lost it
it was a loss for xerox but a win for mankind. Many outcomes of Xerox became patent unencumbered
- mcswell 4y agoI had an experience with this a couple decades ago. I was using a piece of Xerox software that came on a CD in a book. The license meant you had to buy a copy of the book for every runtime version, and IIRC it came with some kind of non-commercial use requirement even then. An organization we worked for wanted to use it, so we talked to Xerox, eventually getting to one of their lawyers. He told us it would cost ~$150k _to write the license_. Who knows what it would have cost to actually license the product. Needless to say (so I'll say it), we went with someone else's software product.