Wow I hope no one ever founds a company with you.
Not sure why pointing this out makes me not a good person to found a company with.
I have separated from a co-founder and I made damn sure we had an agreement in writing defining the terms of the separation. Didn't take much, no lawyers, just a one page agreement, three people each with a copy, all with signatures. All still good friends.
Obviously, one should act in their own self interest and use the law to it's fullest extent, not consider the social consequences of being a dick.
Good luck sir.
I'd want my cofounder to think through how somebody with legal leverage over our company would act. You should want that too.
That sounds like condoning exploitative behaviour to me. Is that the sentence we are both talking about?
You seem to be certain one side is looking out for their self interest much more than the other, which you have no way of really knowing because you are just another person commenting on a discussion on the Internet.
Unless you are personally involved in this matter, and know more than what has been publicly reported so far? And even then, how would we know you are not being biased in your judgments by your involvement?
Ya'alls notion of "rights" is pretty disturbing to me.
Which is a coherent, defensible position. Sounded like you were selectively accusing one actor in this dispute as the "greedy" one, which I think is why you got so much push back on your comments.
If money is your goal great, more power to ya, but I'm gonna call you a dick and not want to work with you.
What do you need a reward for at all?
Why are you trying to build something?
By my standards, your motivation matters a lot, it sounds like you think people deserve rewards for doing things, I don't think that makes very much sense. Gold star you did the right thing, bullshit.
But, since we don't really know all the facts, if this was a mutual parting of ways, then I agree that it's a terrible thing to do.
The bottom line is we really don't know what happened. I can at least see how a reasonable person could walk this path if they feel they've been maligned.
It's that "rightfully yours" bit that really bothers me. Where does that come from and why is it so obviously rightfully yours? It takes some gumption to assume you're in the right. This land is rightfully mine because I bought it from someone else who genocided a people, but okay great, it's rightfully mine, I feel super great about it.
The one's filing them and demanding what's rightfully theirs are selfish, the one's not filing patents are less selfish.
I don't think it's fair to judge the ethics of a person by how nicely they respond to being screwed over.
And if you're the disgruntled co founder, this is your most opportune moment to extract maximum equity value for yourself.
What I don't understand is, if a company did this to another company, people are all like 'yeah, that's how the market works', but when a person does it to a person, they're all like 'you're heartless and not playing nice'. Why the hypocrisy?