My personal favorite is the "companies are obligated to support it forever, or open source the server software hosted by a third party, hosting paid for up front for at least a year."

They get to keep my money forever don't they?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

While I love the spirit of this idea, it gets complicated fast. Worlds adrift is a great example. The game’s server was created using some closed source libraries with a paid license. So when the owning company (Bossa Studios?) went under, they were unable to open source it.

A law like this would effectively kill all licensed software that isn’t a full product. I do agree though; we need a solution

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm fine with that, wanna keep it out of public hands, nut up and sell your stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Still difficult in that example. Bossa can’t force the other company to do anything.

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