On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Clemens Lang <cll...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Michael J Gruber <m...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Understanding is helped greatly by communication, though. Legal answers >> such as "We can not" do not further this understanding, and "We can not >> and we can not tell you why" is not much better, but these are the typical >> answer we get, not even with a "sorry, but we can't". Obviously, these >> legal questions are difficult to explain, but it can't be true that each >> such case is under a "gag order”. >> > > A lawyer at a previous employer told me that explanations of such decisions > can be used against you in court. Presumably, this also applies here. That's sounds overlay paranoid. How can an explanation on why you are *not* doing something be used against you in court? I can get why "we don't think that patent XYZ applies so this is fine to ship" is problematic, but the other way around just doesn't make sense.
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