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It's not about damages caused; the suit is over a claim that open source developers have a fiduciary/beneficiary relationship with users, and so have an obligat

• nullc 4y ago
  > In which case, BitCoin devs would need to fork the chain to hand a few hefty wallets over. It's even worse than that, of course, because creating the backdoored version they demanded wouldn't and couldn't make anyone run it (and it's inconceivable to me that more than a negligible number would-- particularly seeing how there are no automatic updates by design for security reasons). Their position is that we're responsible for it being effective too. I think if it were just a demand to backdoor the software one of the defendants might have done so-- "Here you go, now screw off". But that clearly wouldn't have made the plaintiff go away (and might have landed them in litigation from the actual owners of the assets, even though the backdoor had no effect except maybe the creation of yet another forked blockchain that no one uses).