• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    How does that work exactly? You can’t retroactively sue someone over a patent before it was granted… in fact, once you realize the mechanic was already out there, and patent shouldn’t be granted at all.

    • Linktank@lemmy.today
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      24 days ago

      They’re just so used to pissing all over everything that they don’t realize when they’re pissing in the wind and getting it all over their reputation.

      • msage@programming.dev
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        23 days ago

        I know you mean it well, but… Nintendo was always like this. Like the jokes about the CEO handing the African kid 300 million dollar lawsuit because he drew their console on paper is very old.

        Yet people still buy their shit.