>GitHub will establish and donate $1M to a developer defense fund to help protect open source developers on GitHub from unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims
Big shoutout to GitHub for committing to this.
@sir reminds me of when newegg was the No.1 patent troll fighter for a while. it kinda sucks that the only pushback against copyright/patent shit is when a big corporation decides that it might make financial sense to take a stand, glad that it's happening but it's very temporary and doesn't really adress the root cause.
@resist1984 @rysiek @sir it was a while ago, i think it was their chief lawyer (edit: Lee Cheng) who decided to actually take on a patent troll who basically bullied companies into settlements by threatening expensive lawsuits? (its been a while since I read the articles about it) Found this arstechnica article, i think they did some good reporting on it when it was going on.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/patents-are-bulls-t-says-neweggs-chief-legal-officer-lee-cheng/