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Maybe as a show of good faith you could send the original creator 10 or 20k usd as a thank you. Talk is cheap
by kyleee 1y ago
Maybe as a show of good faith you could send the original creator 10 or 20k usd as a thank you. Talk is cheap
- rererereferred 1y ago10 or 20k USD for Copyright Violation sounds cheap.
- guywithahat 1y agoThis sounds like a good idea but getting the checkbook out at a company like Microsoft probably takes 3-5 meetings, and saying you want to donate because you accidentally stole their code and put the company at (theoretical) risk of a lawsuit seems like a bad conversation starter with management. I like the thought though
- qingcharles 1y agoNot my experience with MS. They seemed to be pretty low on the "red tape" scale. Maybe they should have 3-5 meetings before forking OSS projects though :)
- NoahZuniga 1y agoAlso it seems like in the original comment they already admitted to breaching the copyright, so sending him money doesn't increase the chance of a lawsuit succeeding.