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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Karellen on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:07AM (#33906258)
> Why not offer 1 million for the signed contract?

Because they believed (erroneously or not) that they already had paid for the thing the contract was about, and were offering a "peppercorn" payment for the signature itself to make the exchange complete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by salawat on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:20AM (#33906330)
...and people wonder why I think contract law is as damn close to a poson pill as you can have in something brazenly referred to as a justice system.
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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by djur on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:40AM (#33906463)
What's objectionable about this specific example of contract law? If the law didn't require contracts to have some consideration they would have offered $0. No real difference.
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