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0 pointsphillipcarter3y ago0 comments

Perhaps it's just a general sense of disillusionment, but I've come to see that "court orders X" and "X happens" are entirely orthogonal. I will be personally surprised if Musk pays a single cent.

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smaudet3y ago

Depends I guess on how 007 you think the world operates (reference to James Bond) - X will happen, but maybe 2-10 years after various counter-suits.

Case studies are what has happened e.g. with Microsoft, other large businesses - long legal battles are fought, nothing happens while things are in limbo.

When the rubber finally hits the road, things happen fairly quickly, but until then it does look a bit like "nothing happens".

This is of course, a problem, perhaps one that needs innovating around.

tambourine_man3y ago

What has happened to Microsoft? They still have a default browser pre-installed, Office wasn’t spun-off to another company… and I don’t remember the Java stuff anymore but I think nothing happened either, even though it’s a lot less relevant now.

brianwawok3y ago

The stuff stuff made them spin off C#, which likely made them more money

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