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Re:A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the... by kjsthree on Monday September 11, 2017 @12:45AM (#15215984)
Yes, you're absolutely correct. So the takeaway would be not to bring software patent litigation to Facebook's door flippantly. A thing I'm absolutely in favor of.

I can't believe I'm defending Facebook though. A company who's data-mining practices completely creep me out. I definitely try to reduce the reach of their tentacles into my life but in this case I see nothing to take issue with.

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Re:A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the... by sandGorgon on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:23AM (#15216139)
Nobody is denying this. The real problem actually is the other way around. If Facebook infringes on your IP, you still can't do anything about it..at the risk of losing patent cover.

Im really not sure how it can be worded to let legitimate lawsuits through. But that is the problem. Tomorrow if you build a new AI algorithm on caffe2, FB can pretty much use the whole code and you would be bound by the patent clauses.

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Re:A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the... by slavik81 on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:14AM (#15216097)
The patent clause applies to all patents, not just software patents.
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