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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mmcmonster on Monday March 10 2014, @01:18PM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Monday March 10 2014, @01:18PM (#14117)

    Err... Let's look at the big picture.

    $2K is chump change. You could probably raise that on kickstarter in half an hour.

    Give him the cash, but make a legal document out of it requiring him to give up all claims on the 'intellectual property' (yes, I see the irony here) and assets associated with this site and the associated software, database, and hardware.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 10 2014, @01:37PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday March 10 2014, @01:37PM (#14131) Homepage Journal
    Yes, we're aware that's an option, one that is being given very serious consideration, that is what the option in the poll is for, after all.
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fnj on Monday March 10 2014, @02:20PM

    by fnj (1654) on Monday March 10 2014, @02:20PM (#14154)

    If a legal document is part of it, then we're not talking about $2K any more. It costs $ to draw it up and get it right. And it implies commitment beyond $2K + costs to draw up. There is only a point to a legal document if you are prepared to back it with legal adjudication and enforcement in the event it becomes necessary. And I feel safe to say that is not what what anyone had in mind when this audacious venture was undertaken.

    I understand reluctance or caution at this step. All of me fundamentally cries out "#$^%# it, just pay it and be done with it", but life experience says "here there be dragons". Not in the sense that any personality is necessarily a dragon; just in the sense that events and feelings are at an ominous stage. I'm talking out of control.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @03:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @03:19PM (#14187)

      I can envision years down the road a situation like Facebook had with the Winklevoss twins. Barbarras could surface again years later claiming NCommander "stole" his idea while the $2k payment was only for recoupment of the startup costs.