No, it's worse than that. This is the kind of thing that destroys careers if your name gets attached. it doesn't even particularly matter whether or not you get sued. Getting sued is a whole lot of icing on that particular cake, but it's still just the icing. Once you're known as someone who is willing to engage in IP theft, your employment prospects in a field that relies entirely on you producing IP plummet.
Look. I get it. I'm not making an ethical claim. I think that a lot of stuff about IP law is broken and that the Eloquence/Dectalk story is a perfect example of why. But that doesn't change that it's the law, and that idealistic "in spirit so-and-so owned it" stances are, you know, illegal.
Maybe someone here wants to risk it. Maybe someone here has the anonymity necessary, or lives somewhere where this isn't a concern, I dunno. But this is thread 2 in which "well patents, pfft" is the stance we're taking and just come on.
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