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Does Microsoft have the power to pull the plug on Linux gaming? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by sir_pronoun@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So I'm talking about playing previously Windows-only games on Linux, e.g. via proton.

I don't know about the libraries etc that are used - is it possible for Microsoft to use some legal voodoo, for example, to suddenly end it all, and make the use of their libraries illegal (if they belong to Microsoft in the first place)?

Or could there be other ways of interference?

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[-] frazw@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even then you can still have someone read the source and write a spec for a second programmer to write a library. The programmer never saw the source code but it was still useful. Still legal to do this. If someone dumped original source into the projector could be similarly checked for duplication without breaking the law.

this post was submitted on 21 May 2024

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