Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
by nickspacek on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:25PM
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People change; perhaps they had previously discovered terms in which monetization would be agreeable. Then when that monetization happened, the other party had a change of heart and no longer consented. If done in bad faith I could see that annoying someone.
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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
by kbenson on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:42PM
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> perhaps they had previously discovered terms in which monetization would be agreeable.
If that was the case, I doubt it would have been explicitly and legally formalized in the contract as disallowed without a payout.
If two parties decide that a clause of a contract doesn't need to be enforced, you rewrite the contract. Anything else is just stupid, as it allows the person likely to gain to say "well, I didn't really mean that...".
If you've formalized something in a legally binding contract, be prepared to follow through on it. Full stop.