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  • So, who stands to gain from the project being killed (i.e. if the developers get doxxed)? Steam/Valve, because they sell the PC version of the game? I don’t buy it. Sony? That’s an even greater stretch.

    Bet on “people are stupid”: usually it’s the winning horse to these philosophical issues.

    Humans are flawed, and make stupid things; sometime it’s not even about malice/narcissism, but because they are in hard time in their lives.

    I don’t remember which project, but a volunteer developer sustained for many years a very popular dependency package for the web: it was free and companies worth millions used his software without ever-never give anything back. When the dude was in economic/life hardship he sabotaged his own project in some sort of form of protest.

































  • My reading is this: Nintendo is paying a lawyer firm that, unfortunately for Nintendo, can’t do all the things Nintendo dream (ie: physically slap in the face whoever is NOT actively give them money) because they loss most cases, and when they lose a case… that’s a precedent.

    However, the lawyer firm is taking money from Nintendo, and they would like to keep doing so; unfortunately for them “doing nothing” is not a good call to keep the Nintendo money flow in their pocket.

    So, they figured this out:

    Point A: Microsoft want to be friend with Nintendo (Nintendo publish few games on Google’s Android and MS hope Nintendo will consider MS’s stores too).

    Point B: Microsoft own Github, and Github has to please whosoever Microsoft wants pleased)

    Point C: lawyer send letter to MS-github: “we represent Nintendo, and Nintendo would be pleased if you do this unlawful thing and you show off your shitty EULA against these poor bugger like it was actual law”. MS-Github obbey hoping some Mario’s money will come in MS-store later or extremely later (which is “sooner or late”, but for very desperate simp)

    Point D: lawyer present Nintendo their “doing” as it was actual lawyer job to ignorant morons; being as such, Nintendo pays.