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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by qwerty456127 on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:51PM (#27427552)
> He would have been bankrupt despite being 100% legally in the right. Fortunately for him, EFF decided to support him afterwards. But do not count on EFF paying for your legal defence.

Why? If you are 100% legally in the right then why wouldn't an entity with sufficient resources whose agenda is in line with that of yours support you? They will get all the expenses compensated after you+they win, won't they?

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by lesuorac on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:59PM (#27427656)
The loser only pays the winner's legal fees when required [1]. I'm not a lawyer but iiuc as long as you file in one of 21 states [2] you shouldn't expect to have to payout for making a pointless lawsuit.

Anecdotally, there were a lot of lawsuits claiming fraud & etc in the recent US president elections and I haven't heard of a single case where they had to pay for losing them.

[1]: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/attorney-fees-does-l... [2]: https://www.medialaw.org/topics-page/anti-slapp

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by okdjnfweonfe on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:53PM (#27427581)
because the legal system is human, a persuasive case is just as important as a legally backed case

Also, can only field X amount of cases per period, unless they want to be dealing with burnout etc

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