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Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by dspillett on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:25AM (#20819495)
> awful and fundamentally flawed

Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense. And even when it seems to from your perspective, the way others interpret it does not.

> nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue

Technical people can be arseholes too you know. Many patent trolls are technical people, not just legal eagles, for instance.

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Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by MichaelApproved on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:18AM (#20819994)
> Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense.

This isn't about the law. It's unclear if the law would require something like this or not. Google decided not to find out by settling. The settlement terms were up to the two companies to decide and were not mandated by laws.

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