RegalPotoo

RegalPotoo, 1 year ago

Then don’t screw up

If you have already screwed up, you now get to play The Game of Litigation, where their lawyers try to prove that you are liable for billions of dollars in damages, and your lawyer tries to prove that you aren’t. The way the game works is whoever spends the most on lawyers wins. You’ve got more cash to spend than your clients right?

RegalPotoo, 1 year ago

The irony is just chefs kiss,

RegalPotoo, 1 year ago

From the previous issue it sounds like the developer has proper legal representation, but in his place I wouldn’t even begin talking with Haier until they formally revoke the C&D, and provide enforceable assurances that they won’t sue in the future.

Also I don’t know what their margins are like, but even if this cost them an extra $1000 in AWS fees on top of what their official app would have cost them (I seriously doubt it would be that much unless their infrastructure is absolute bananas), then it would probably only be a single-digit number of sales that they would have needed to loose to come out worse off from this.

RegalPotoo, 1 year ago

Because if you are a microchip manufacturer in the 70s:

• Calculators are a reasonably good revenue stream once you’ve developed a chip, but needs a ton of upfront investment
• Defence contractors have essentially unlimited budgets from DoD, need chips, and are more than willing to pay for all the R&D to get what they need

The entire US tech and aerospace industries are built on what is effectively massive government subsidies in the form of weapons contracts