Randall,
Companies tend to see anyone who makes money in any tangential way to
their own as competition. Good luck breaking EULAs and assuming that
the authors will just see you as value-added. More likely they sue you
out of existence first, and then decide if they want to recreate your
tool for themselves. Or "acquire" you for a bargain price in exchange
for not suing.
I'm not saying what you describe has never happened, but going in with
that cavalier attitude is generally going to get you in trouble.
'Never let a case like this go to court' you say... I think you vastly
underestimate the litigious nature of the corporate world.
Key word "competition".
-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Yennie" <[email protected]>
To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]>
Sent: 3/20/2009 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: illegal creativity?
Randall,
You can't be serious -- go ahead and break the EULA because you might
get acquired instead of sued? That seems a bit like saying, go ahead
and drive into a tree, your airbag should deploy. Since when are big
companies afraid of suing the competition into compliance?
Not exactly true. A large company would never let a case like this
go to court. Bad publicity. Unless the tool you are planning to
release directly competes with or decreases the need for said
product, your tool will only be seen as adding value to the
marketplace. More and more illegal bs is being written into user
licenses as scare tactic deterent. Much more likely is that your
product would be aquiered. Remember who is most likely to sit on a
jury (not board members!).
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