Re:Microsoft is a minority owner of OpenAI Global LLC
by mattmaroon on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:43PM
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People have a lot of magical thinking about how the legal system works when they haven’t experienced it first hand.
If one company could sue another smaller company out of business at will, there would only be one company.
It does happen that companies go bankrupt fighting invalid lawsuits, no doubt, but it’s rare and it’s almost never a company that just built the most talked about product of the decade and raised an 11 digit war chest.
Also, "hiring the best lawyers in the world" is similar to the "nine women can't give birth to one baby in one month", that is, from a certain point on both sides can "hire the best lawyers in the world", or pretty much close to it, an order of magnitude (or two or three, like MS has over whoever will stand behind the OpenAI's board members in helping them with money) bigger scale doesn't necessarily guarantee the expected outcome.