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And they decided to pay? FFS… well, that was certainly educational.

It has a very chilling effect on innovation no doubt.



You are doing Your Thing™ and the lawyers are doing Their Thing™, and you are both incompetent at the other one.

The worst you could do to a lawyer is that maybe you could embarrass them about their lack of network engineering knowledge, but they in turn can extract real money from you through various means.

Also defending oneself results in involving a different lawyer enriching lawyers as a whole anyways.


> maybe you could embarrass them about their lack of network engineering knowledge

I’m fairly certain it’s possible to do much worse to a laywer, especially a technically clueless one.

Defending oneself from a frivolous lawsuit (e.g. judge has already said ‘you can’t do that’) in a sensible country like Germany might not cost you anything.

Much, much more likely however, is that they wouldn’t go to court at all (because, you know, they would lose, and even if both sides pay their own cost they’d lose more money than they could potentially make).




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