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Comment Re:'Waited too long' is a lame cop-out. (Score 0) 72

I guess now everyone will be acting like sue it or lose it because penalizing continued wrong-doing now has a time limit from the starting date of the initial wrong-doing.

1) If there was not any statute of limitations, your neighbor from 50 years ago can sue because you never returned his hammer as he claims. Good luck trying to find witnesses and documents from that long ago. 2) The time limit is from when the wrong-doing is found out, not when it happens.

Comment Re:What a waste of time (Score 1) 72

Normally a statute of limitations question would have been addressed earlier in the case. I can only guess a main point of contention is when did Musk know that OpenAI was going to convert to for-profit. If the defense had to establish at trial Musk knew in 2019, then that would be why the trial was needed. If Musk can claim he found out in 2021, then he was within the statiute.

Comment Re:Technicality (Score 2) 72

The core issue for civil cases is whether or not the plaintiff was damaged. Filing a lawsuit years after the limitations ran out would undercut any argument Musk had that he was damaged. He was aware of the conversion to for-profit. He had the money to sue. He wasn't damaged enough to sue before the limitations ran out would be a conclusion by the court.

Comment Re:Wasn't he right though? (Score 1) 72

Kind of weird how stealing an entire non-profit worth billions, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars only has a statue of limitations of 2-3 years.

The principle is if there were not any limitations, people could sue for things that happened long in the past and bog down the courts. The limitations by the way is governed when something can be known not when it happens. In this case, however, Musk knew OpenAI was turning for-profit as it was public knowledge back in 2019. He waited until 2024. If Musk was so damaged by the change he could have sued earlier. It's not like he didn't have the money to sue.

Submission + - Musk loses OpenAI case due to statute of limitations (nbcnews.com)

UnknowingFool writes: A jury has found that Elon Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit and found in favor of OpenAI in the case of Musk v Altman. OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Musk and Altman. In 2019, OpenAI converted from a non-profit to for-profit model. Musk filed a lawsuit in 2024 claiming the conversion of OpenAI violated the agreements that had been made on the company’s founding. The jury deliberating for less than two hours found that Musk had exceeded the 3 year statute of limitations.

Comment Re:Most requested feature...that you removed (Score 1) 69

No one ever mentions that this is an option. The tech media just screams, "Your computer will be useless after they stop supporting Win10!" For a lot of people, sure, I wouldn't recommend using legacy OSs. For a small group of us, it's perfect. Once I got a substantial number of updates, I disabled automatic updates via the policy editor, before it started installing nags to upgrade to Win11 and trying to trick you into it. If it ain't broke...

Comment Now restore the quicklaunch feature as well (Score 1) 69

I make heavy use of the quick launch feature on a double height taskbar in Win10, and no it's not the same as 'pinned apps'.

There are some workarounds and third party options to restore that functionality, but again, why did you take it out? When it's disabled it's not bothering anyone who doesn't want it.

Comment Re:Linus with his weekly rant (c)(tm) (Score 1) 59

He needs to start thinking about what to do with all these security bugs/issues as they are not AI hallucinations.

And no one said they were hallucinations. That's a strawman argument. What he's saying is these bugs are duplicative, misclassified, and already known.

Maybe he should spend more time fixing his processes instead of spending useless time on his weekly rant (c)(tm)

Why don't you fix his processes since you seem to have all the answers.

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