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[–] 20 points 4 months ago (12 children)

They'll copy Steam's source code, patent it, and then sue Steam for infringement.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    How do you imagine they patent a fork of Linux?

    They already tried patent trolling for over a decade before they gave up... (Look up "Microsoft Novell-Suse patent trolling")

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Some bullshit to do with vibe coding a copy, then make some important new feature and patent that. Then require all new games on windows to support that. Some bullshit like that. Make direct 13 as incompatible with translations to vulkan as possible.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    And that's perfectly fine and legal because patents are 'first to file'

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  • [+] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • I'm sure lots of things are "supposed to be" a certain way, but in true American fashion, most of these kinds of laws aren't enforced until the parties end up in court.

    You know, the courts that are famously impartial and who never rule along ideological or party lines, are never swayed by whoever has the "better" lawyers, and are never biased against minoities. Oh, and litigation is super cheap too, and so frivolous lawsuits definitely can't be used as financial weapons.

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