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Filing a suit does not take years. If you know you have a case, decide if you’re going to sue, if yes, then you bang out the paperwork and file it with the appr
by SllX 4y ago
Filing a suit does not take years. If you know you have a case, decide if you’re going to sue, if yes, then you bang out the paperwork and file it with the appropriate court. Trying to fight what ought to be a lawsuit through PR isn’t going to get you any closer to an injunction or discovery but is a red flag that maybe the one engaging in the PR battle doesn’t feel confident they have a case.
EDIT: I dug into it a little. SFC appears to be dug into a lawsuit against Vizio. It makes sense, even law firms have finite resources, and there’s some indication that the outcome of this lawsuit could give a clearer indication of the viability of a suit against John Deere. My original point on the time it takes to file a suit stands though.
- simoncion 4y ago> Filing a suit does not take years. Correct. Closing out the suit takes years. As was said: > These cases take years
- pabs3 4y agoA suit against John Deere is a lot harder in the way that the Vizio suit is being done (there they are suing as an end-user, a third-party beneficiary of the GPL contract), because you would have to be a Deere customer first (presumably that would cost more money than Conservancy's budget for the Vizio lawsuit) and if you do sue, maybe they stop selling you tractors or software updates or stop taking your phone calls. A regular copyright violation lawsuit might be a better option.