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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    IMO all consumer software should forcibly become open source after 10 years. Companies have 10 years to make a fuckton of money from it. That also means they have 10 years to innovate enough so that once the source code is released they will still have something else to sell that is big enough of an improvement that people will still want to pay for it.

    Otherwise you end up with stagnation and enshitification from companies controlling critical software and holding back entire industries like Adobe is.

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      Companies have 10 years to make a fuckton of money from it.

      Some people really love monopolies, and it shows when they ignore history, and theory.
      You’re remaking clans, which leads to clan wars, which leads to kingdoms, which lead to empires.

      All software should be free. All blob reversed engineered. Let everyone decide how they run their machines.

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      3 hours ago

      This should be all media and patents. No one invents something alone. Everyone stands on all of our shoulders.

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    In a better reality, Blizzard would’ve studied the code and fallen in love with the things that made Blizzard successful in the first place; a decent fucking game.

    Then, they would’ve released the source code on GitHub as a “thank you”.

    The fans, admiring what Blizzard had done, happily supported the company & Microsoft never bought it, because Microsoft had spent all of their money creating a space prison for the corporate elite & corrupted leaders of Earth.

    And everyone but those in the Space Prison lived happily ever after, and Earth didn’t become yet another dead rock orbiting a flaming ball of gas, floating through the cosmos inside of the mouth of a turtle with 4 elephants on its back.

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    9 hours ago

    Probably would’ve ended him up in some legal trouble somehow but still lame. It’s not to hard to do something like that anonymously but I suppose they wanted the clout and 5 second fame — can’t get that if you use an anonymous account.

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      7 hours ago

      If they had no idea he had it, there’s almost zero risk of him getting caught.

      Rip it, compress it, upload it to a public file share through a VPN, and then go silent.

      Then enjoy the renaissance of fan content.

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      8 hours ago

      They could also just be someone who wasn’t that familiar with gaming beyond playing the game and such ideas didn’t even occur to them and so they returned it as the default setting.

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        Also, if they leaked it would they have gotten that sick bric-a-brac? Some dudes love that bric-a-brac shit.

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      You can, but this particular redditor isn’t as creative as us class master OPSEC bandoes.
      dragoncon only @AdamBryceThomas

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      !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT MEGA LEAK TORRENT

      ALL 42 GAMES INCLUDE, ASSETS, TOOLKITS, AND PROTOTYPES

      Corporate files sent to syndicate to negotiate cooperative demands. CEOs have been sent to gulag duties. Some have been turned to house reparation duties due to sexual misconduct and murder