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submitted 2 years ago by kolorafa@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

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[-] pizzatodato@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

wtf is this this is impossible

[-] fkn@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Edit2: Jesus people, please engage with the actual argument... not some strawman argument I didn't make.

I must be missing something here.

  1. Company buys land, designs and builds theme park
  2. Company operates theme park.
  3. Theme park isn't profitable.
  4. Company closes theme park
  5. ???
  6. Company must give away designs and schematics to theme park rides for free so people can build theme park themselves that might be in direct competition with new theme park company is trying to build???

Edit: I do think that abandonware should be opensourced at some point... but I don't understand this level of entitlement.

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