• ceiphas@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    wow, they “killed” an open source project… did they really think it was that easy?

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        8 months ago

        That’s on paper. It’s extremely unlikely that they set an LLC with millions of dollars in assets. The reason they set up the LLC was that if they got sued they could settle for any amount, knowing that they would just declare bankruptcy and pay nothing except their legal fees (which, having settled immediately, are very low)

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      8 months ago

      The main developers won’t be touching it. That’s a pretty big deal since they were the lifeblood of the project.

      Potentially recoverable, but still a big deal.

      Second. There’s no chance that a “reputable” site. Like GitHub, gitlab, etc will be hosting any of these projects for long. That’s significant too.

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        8 months ago

        “reputable”

        Projects like this should be self-hosted & encourage contributors to set up their own self-hosted mirrors to make sure the code is both distributed & decentralized which users/makers have full control over their platform.

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          8 months ago

          And that’s probably why Yuzu didn’t stand up to Nintendo. They probably had enough areas for Nintendo to attack that fighting it could leave the emulator community worse off if it goes to trial. Why risk the money to fight something unless you’re sure you can win?

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            8 months ago

            Maybe. My guess is they just didn’t want to go through the trouble, since it would have been a long war.