Re: Capy: Request for endorsements

Julien Blanc wrote:
> Le 2026-02-20 15:09, Peter Dimov via Boost a écrit :
> 
> > It can't be correct, because if it were, you wouldn't be able to
> > produce a non- infringing work either, if you have ever been exposed
> > to a copyrighted one; the exposure has altered your mental state, so
> > your output is tainted by definition.
> 
> IIRC, some employers are forbidding their engineers to look at their
> competitors' patents for this exact reason : they don't want to be accused of
> some sort of plagiarism / patent infrigement if their engineers come to a
> solution that is too close from the patented one.

Yes. This by the way doesn't work. It's only a defense against willful
infringement (which carries triple damages) and not against infringement in
general.

That's why I said that preemptively forbidding things is almost always
counterproductive.


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