alt Hacker NewsMaybe nothing, but can you afford to prove that in court?
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userbinator • last Thursday at 1:25 AM
If you take the effort to anonymise your contributions, can they afford to try to find you?
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Maybe nothing, but can you afford to prove that in court?
If you take the effort to anonymise your contributions, can they afford to try to find you?
I need to post this everywhere:
THIS ISN'T AN IP/PATENT ISSUE!
This is branding and marketing issue. Anyone can implement the spec, it doesn't need to be a cleanroom implementation. It's almost certain that you could license the patents from the patent holders because HDMI doesn't develop it's own patentable stuff, they just get it from Sony, Panasonic, etc.
THIS IS A MARKETING / BRANDING ISSUE.
Saying they don't want an open source implementation is just a smokescreen. 99% of the implementation is in hardware anyway.