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“you’re a hobbyist without access to some serious throwaway money to join the Thread Group, there is no way to use Thread legally” Well, there’s no way to know
by actionfromafar 3y ago
“you’re a hobbyist without access to some serious throwaway money to join the Thread Group, there is no way to use Thread legally”
Well, there’s no way to know until someone finds out if they have relevant patent covers.
We need Compaq to clean room copy the stuff and then take the hit if there truly are valid patents…
- erik_seaberg 3y agoA cleanroom process is evidence that you reimplemented without copying, but that's not enough to avoid infringing a patent. You need to redesign to avoid doing anything they claimed, convince the patent office that they made a mistake in granting some or all of the claims, hold a war chest of patents you could counter-sue with, or YOLO: https://paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html https://paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
- actionfromafar 3y agoYes. What I meant about valid patents is that you can’t really know what a patent is worth until you challenge it. There are SO MANY filed patents which are basically just crap, nothing more than camouflage and bluster.