Two Dukaans and a base code: how techie friends fought, made up, but left many configuring
Synopsis
The much-publicised authorized wrangle between Khatabook and Dukaan has a lesson for startup founders: make your transactions foolproof. What stays intriguing is why Khatabook, which managed to pressure the Dukaan app out of Play Store via a courtroom injunction, settled for a small fairness and withdrew its copyright claims.
Two startups. A spat within the open. Barbs of theft and deceit. For a fracas that was more and more getting noisier, it ended fairly abruptly. Khatabook, valued at USD300 million, withdrew the copyright-infringement case towards Growthpond Technologies, a a lot smaller and youthful entity.Khatabook had accused Growthpond of utilizing its proprietary base code and managed to get an injunction order that pressured the latter to take down the Dukaan app from
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