Randall,
I give up on this thread, and don't want to detail it any further from
the original poster's needs. There's nothing paranoid at all about
taking lawsuits seriously. Obviously everyone can assess their own
situation and decide whether they fly under the radar or have a killer
idea worth the risk.
As far as "us mosquitos", some of us have invested our entire careers
in our businesses, and consider them quite valuable and relevant.
Believe it or not, we're not all inconsequential to large
corporations. Some of us are not just tinkering around.
Wow, new key word "paranoia". Looks like the evil them and their
evil tactics win (at least they have with you). I think the idea
that someone tinkering around in an interpreted language IDE who
deludes themselves into thinking that larry ellis would want his
legal staff running around hacking the heads off of us mosquitos
should be more concerened with the guys in the white vans than with
lawyers. I dont know, are you steve jobs in disguise?
-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Yennie" <[email protected]>
To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]>
Sent: 3/20/2009 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: illegal creativity?
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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