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bejant wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2017 3:15 amWhat has Blender experienced, or what do they anticipate?
Basically several kinds of threats from big companies. It even happened that some developers were threatened personally of being sued and left development entirely.
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yorik wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2017 3:58 pm Basically several kinds of threats from big companies. It even happened that some developers were threatened personally of being sued and left development entirely.
I am kind of surprised I never heard about this. Are there any blog posts about it?
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https://yorik.uncreated.net/guestblog.php?2017=411

Yeah :) Nice to read above blog post.

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yorik wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:50 pm ....(The big guys will come after FreeCAD soon, get prepared).....
Can you give an specific example?
When we use methods from scientific articles (lets say in FEM, sheet-metal flatening), could that be a problem?
When implementing new methods in FC (for example rebar-tools, FEM-beams, manipulator) which are sometimes "inspired"
by other companies, could that be a problem too?
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Inspiration cannot be patented. If you copy the code or parts of it you can be sued. You cannot be sued for developing your own code. (well you can be sued but not convicted). Think of it as of plagiarism of a book, the borders are not very sharp but sharp enough.
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thschrader wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:52 am
yorik wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:50 pm ....(The big guys will come after FreeCAD soon, get prepared).....
Can you give an specific example?
When we use methods from scientific articles (lets say in FEM, sheet-metal flatening), could that be a problem?
When implementing new methods in FC (for example rebar-tools, FEM-beams, manipulator) which are sometimes "inspired"
by other companies, could that be a problem too?
regards Thomas
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easyw-fc wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:38 am useless patent war
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of ... 14-10?IR=T
from link above:
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I have the main focus on "..for all parties involved."
Thats the hidden reason why they do it: to ruin you :shock:
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thschrader wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:59 am
easyw-fc wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:38 am useless patent war
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of ... 14-10?IR=T
from link above:
forAllParties.JPG
I have the main focus on "..for all parties involved."
Thats the hidden reason why they do it: to ruin you :shock:
Have you seen any sw or open source project in the world that has stopped to use double click in its routines or GUI?
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The thing is, you can be threatened to be sued. That doesn't mean you will get effectively sued, or even that such action has any chance to succeed. But what will you do if you receive suddenly a letter that says "If you don't stop immediately developing this thing, we'll sue you for millions of dollars". That's the usual strategy. And, contrarily to what I thought until I talked with Ton and François, it IS used against opens-source software developers.
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