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> I get your point, but realistically you're talking about a minuscule chance of being sued as first defendant given the thousands of OSS devs in the region Th
by bigfatkitten 2y ago
> I get your point, but realistically you're talking about a minuscule chance of being sued as first defendant given the thousands of OSS devs in the region
There's that, and and there's also the fact there's no point in suing people with little money.
An aggrieved company isn't going to go after a random open source dev, because that cost more than it is worth. They will find an actual commercial vendor to sue.
- tripletao 2y agoThat's true, but only if the thing they want is money. For example, a commercial software developer might fund lawsuits against its open-source competitor even with no hope of recovering significant cash, because the goal is simply to destroy that competitor. Probably they'd lose eventually. The effect on the defendant would be big regardless though, and that's the point. A lawsuit doesn't have to win to be a useful economic weapon, just to survive long enough to inflict the intended pain on your opponent.