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Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China by zaroth on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:36AM (#15530945)
I don't think the public promise has a super-secret gotcha button which in some hypothetical future Tesla pushes to sue for patent infringement.

Think what you want about Elon, but he made the pledge openly and directly I think that means something.

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Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China by eric-hu on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:59AM (#15531021)
What if Larry Ellison acquires Tesla in an aggressive takeover? How much are Elon's words worth then?
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Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China by chii on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:10AM (#15531058)
even after being acquired, a company doesn't absolve of it's obligations to honour contracts (verbal or written).

If Ellison decides to retract said IP waiver, he would have to publically say so, and because the existing IP waiver Musk have provided doesn't seem to include any terms such as termination, i would assume it's an indefinite and perpetual waiver. Hence, Ellison will have to sue (and probably lose) to have existing usages of said IP to be discontinued.

IANAL.

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Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China by rahkiin on Monday October 23, 2017 @10:11AM (#15533267)
Tell that to Google, who used the verbal agreement of the Sun CEO that they could use the Java API. Taken over by Oracle and now they are sued over it.
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