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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Thanks. The ending where he goes "how would I deal with company patent lawyers? Well flips them off" is a bit annoying as well. I heard some make diy E makers and distributers were jailed already. So setting up some assistance system for that would be nice (esp after you made it worse by making it easier for the courts to call them terrorists, sure the term has degraded but law wise this has consequences. I really hope he at least got some trans people involved before he started this (and i also really hope im wrong about the risks here, as trans people should get all the meds they want)).
he's already easily covered under personal/research nonprofit use so he doesn't have to care about any patents, it's even opposite, he can use all patents all he wants np as long as there's no profits associated with it. he takes donations tho and idk if it qualifies. not that copyright is the biggest problem here
i don't think that whatever he's doing will help transfolk cause too much, there already is some hormone supply and all he's doing is bringing unwanted attention. i hope i'm wrong on this one
I took the question to be a vit more broad than just be about patents, like sure that might not be a problem re a lawsuit you can lose, vut just fighting the lawsuits will be bad for people, and will the 4 vinegars offer any help for people who do this and get in trouble. This feels a bit centralize the fame and decentralize all the risk. Which will usually not end great for the people who have less privileges than the phd educated cis guy. I hope they thought more about this than just flipping people off (or worse, "if somebody gets in legal trouble we can use that to promote our cause"). But i tend to be a bit more paranoid than most.
wouldn't surprise me, but this would require them to have something workable in the first place. otoh even martin shkhreli didn't do that