FreedomAdvocate

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

This is standard practice in industry - you don’t buy something without assurance that if the company goes under you have options.

Which industries is this standard in? I can't think of any. If Samsung went bankrupt who is replacing your S25 Ultra?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Sure, but has the law made licenses for software illegal/unenforceable? No.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Can I ask why you bother doing that? What is the point?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 5 points 10 months ago

You want to donate money to the government?

[–] FreedomAdvocate -5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Because of people like you thinking they fucked up and spreading FUD?

If you knew anything about software development and the internet you would understand that there was no issue here. It's all client side code. It's not hiding any secrets, it's not stuff that is any use to anyone.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

6.63 Million to go for the world record!

You mean about 5 million to go before Sony "finds" another 5 million PS2's that they sold but completely forgot about lol. As of right now, the Switch has 100% already outsold the PS2, probably by about 20 million. Take Sony's picture they released almost 10 years after the long agreed upon 155mil total PS2 sales figure was given, conveniently just as the Switch started looking like it would break the 155mil record:

This means that they produced 160 million PS2s. Not sold - produced. I personally had 2 PS2 replacements for free from Sony, so 2 of those 160 million produced were not sold. With how widespread the PS2 issues were - and remember that Sony lost multiple class action lawsuits over their hardware failures - millions upon millions of those 160 million produced consoles were given away as replacements.

We don't know how many Switch consoles Nintendo have produced, just how many they have sold - though obviously they could also count produced as sold like Sony do. Sony confirmed their position, Nintendo haven't - so at this stage we have to assume the Switch is the best selling console of all time.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bingo.

If a school keeps giving their students assignments that current tools can answer easily, the school needs to change their assignments.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nor should they. It's up to the educational institutions to move with the times and make assessments that make sense in the current world.

When calculators were invented, was it the calculator manufacturers problem that students could use them to do their maths homework that was just straight maths equations that a calculator can solve easily? No, it's the educators problem.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

They're not owned by you. You own a license to use them. Some stores, like GOG, give you a less restrictive license, but it's still a license.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 10 months ago (13 children)

So if the developers of a game go bankrupt, or a single developer of an indie game dies, what do you suggest happens?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is absolute bullshit and not at all how it works, now or back in the 1980s.

Nah, it's absolutely how it has worked since the 1980s. You've never owned the game, just the physical hardware it's on and a license to use the game. Go read any manual or back of the box or actual cartridge or disc.

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