• picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Ohh siemens ag are the baddies? I just bought their stock. I wouldnt have, had I known about this.

    • egregiousRac@piefed.social
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      9 hours ago

      As a general rule, somebody is going to patent every aspect of these formats. They haven’t been demanding licensing fees from open projects, so they aren’t being baddies. The fact that they could kept a lot of projects from including direct support.

    • professor_prime
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      3 days ago

      Buy stock in the companies you want to succeed, and short the ones you want to see fail.