• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fwiw, Linus made a post today and said they’ve already arranged to compensate billet for the prototype.

    • tool@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Fwiw, Linus made a post today and said they’ve already arranged to compensate billet for the prototype.

      That has very strong “I’m sorry that I got caught” energy.

    • PatrickYaa@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      And how will they compensate for the lost work, as GN pointed out? Didn’t Billit Labs say they were unable to continue working on the product, since the prototype wasn’t available?

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      1 year ago

      It’s really hard to compensate someone for their prototype though. It’s not just the cost to make another, it’s the opportunity cost that they can’t move their business forward properly in the meantime.

    • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Except that’s also a lie, because as the new GN video talking about that response points out, Linus only contacted Billet about it after the GN video was posted, and they absolutely had not “arranged to compensate Billet for the prototype” yet