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I have a different theory. I think everyone who touches it gets a payout. Think about it--legal threats tend to make people angry. Especially anti-intellectual
by ericb 13y ago
I have a different theory.
I think everyone who touches it gets a payout. Think about it--legal threats tend to make people angry. Especially anti-intellectual property types. By the odds, shouldn't we be seeing a Streisand effect? Being set for life, though, now that's a good motivator to keep your mouth shut.
- girvo 13y agoAnd consider all of them saying "moving on to other projects" + a gag order... An interesting theory, I'll give you that. If I was offered a payout, with the condition of not talking about it at all, I'd probably take it. I don't care about piracy enough, personally.
- naterator 13y agoAn interesting theory, but the problem with it is that the pool of potential devs is effectively limitless (well, not really but it might as well be). They would have to pay me multiple $10ks to stop dev and shut up. And offering that to 100 or 1,000 devs starts getting really expensive. I don't know. Certainly the first few groups it would work, but... if the cat ever got out, everyone would be lining up to develop it, and it would be easy for the cat to get out.
- ericb 13y agoTrue, but once the cat gets out of the bag, you can always fall back to the stick-only option.
- lettergram 13y agoMy guess is that they receive a lawsuit the same time they receive this option. Everyone is shown the carrot and the stick.