I would honestly have done anything else, the environment is soul crushing. I always wondered why more people dont do more tech jobs to generate passive money, and the reason is simple. There's so much bullshit regulation, legalese, lawfare, etc it's simply not worth it. Apple sued a company for making a rectangle item that collected telemetry on arcade devices years ago. This was not front facing, but because the square was too similar to an ipod, the courts reamed the company over some infringement ... And then look at the cunt at Bumble, she literally stole the original idea from her prior competitor but because muh diversity, fucking nothing happened to her
I have been tinkering with a product idea for a couple of years and never released into open source or tried to market it for that very reason. It too has telemetry and analyzing for certain types of traffic and the patent troll companies are fucking everywhere.
My idea is pretty ambitious and it was originally created as a spin off of a source generator concept with ANTLR. I was even building an entire website and exchange system off the concept. However, it's one of those ideas wheres its popularity would lead to my death, so its very risky
Lead to your death if you refused the buy out offer you can't refuse.
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