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'Tap the person on the shoulder and say "Hey, do you know you really shouldn't be distributing those?" Take ten minutes to figure out that leading with lawyers
by EliAndrewC 17y ago
'Tap the person on the shoulder and say "Hey, do you know you really shouldn't be distributing those?" Take ten minutes to figure out that leading with lawyers is both overkill and one of the worst sins you can commit in this community.'
This makes no sense to me. If Google told me, "Stop distributing our closed source applications" then I wouldn't care whether I was told by an engineer or a lawyer. And I certainly don't see why using a lawyer to do this would be "one of the worst sins you can commit" in the open source community.
With that being said, this article raises good points about the closed-ness of the Android software dev kits, their use of NDAs, and how their handling of Android development has been less open than Google likes to claim.
- CUViper 17y agoTo me, a C&D implies bad intentions on the part of the recipient. I would much rather receive an informal request before any legal action is presented against me.
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