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minus-squareAndaith@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI didn’t think emulators were copyright infringement since they’re built from scratch. Why isn’t GitHub telling them to get fucked?
minus-squareFireWire400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months ago Why isn’t GitHub Microsoft telling them to get fucked? They don’t wanna be sued. Emulators are technically legal but Nintendo likes to abuse every loophole in the book to argue otherwise.
minus-squareAndaith@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoIf anyone can afford the lawyers and has an incentive to challenge Nintendo, surely it’s Microsoft……
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWhat’s their incentive?
minus-squareryper@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoA little good press for GitHub to offset all the bad press from downtime.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoThis is good press for GitHub. Corporations are their customers, not us. They want to show how friendly and easy to work with they are to corporations.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoI don’t see an incentive for them here.
I didn’t think emulators were copyright infringement since they’re built from scratch. Why isn’t GitHub telling them to get fucked?
They don’t wanna be sued. Emulators are technically legal but Nintendo likes to abuse every loophole in the book to argue otherwise.
If anyone can afford the lawyers and has an incentive to challenge Nintendo, surely it’s Microsoft……
What’s their incentive?
A little good press for GitHub to offset all the bad press from downtime.
This is good press for GitHub. Corporations are their customers, not us. They want to show how friendly and easy to work with they are to corporations.
I don’t see an incentive for them here.