On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau < [email protected]> wrote:
> Wow… couldn’t they have protected themselves better? > > Why didn’t TF offer to buy them or the product and make it part of their > product offering? > That's only a cost/benefit question for most businesses. The likely answer is that once the legal team decided that there was no significant legal obstacle to replicating the functionality, and the dev team estimated the effort to do so, the total cost was lower to do it internally than to buy Motiva or their IP (which might not have been for sale anyway). Maybe not the most ethically pure thing to do, but not on the face of it "improper." Often sucks to be the little guy. They have my sympathy.
