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(1) Not a certainty that it would be dismissed. Just a high enough likelihood that after hundreds of hours or work with my lawyers (who were excellent) and many rounds of letters and meetings with NVIDIA counsel - all very professional - it wasn't worth our time to pursue further. I have other things to do with my brief adventure on this planet. (2) Feel? At this point just sort of amused by it all. (3) Read the contracts. Carefully. In 1996 NVIDIA was 3 years before IPO and nearly bankrupt, and I was busy. Too busy to read the contracts.

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Read the contracts. Carefully.

May I use your example if I give a talk at some point trying to impress upon the audience why they should actually read agreements before they sign them?

It's already out there. You don't need to ask.

It’s considerate, polite, to ask instead of assuming the author would be ok with that

I find it weird, not polite, personally. Polite would be to not bother them and just use it anyway without drawing their attention to yourself unnecessarily.

Different norms, perhaps.

Why would you assume they would be bothered? They are actively discussing with us all on an open forum. And can just ignore if they don’t want to engage

I didn't assume they would be bothered. I view asking them as performatively seeking attention and therefore bothersome. It's a norm about the general situation not a prediction about the individual one.

The author has published on the topic and engaged in conversations on HN about the topic.

They're clearly ok with the topic being discussed and shared.

Consider that many people do things that they don't need to do!

Thanks for taking your time to write the comment, I appreciate it and for the life lesson to actually read the contracts, carefully. I imagine that it doesn't become a priority or we are too busy for it until we suddenly aren't (seems like its a lot closer to hygiene/health)

Perhaps we can call it as a form of legal hygiene so as to impart the habit to the next generation. (Please feel free to correct me or tell me if there's a more proper term to what I am referring as, as well but I like the intuition/metaphor of treating it as hygiene.)

Thank you and have a nice day :-D

> I have other things to do with my brief adventure on this planet.

Thank you for that simple wisdom for today.

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