Which industries take companies source code and hold it hostage in case the company goes bankrupt? Which software?

Co-op, duels, and “invasions” lol. Not what we’re talking about here. Elden ring is a single player game for all that any one cares or knows.

We’re definitely not talking about co-op when anyone says multiplayer.

That’s a lot of “it possibly could, but it never has happened with huge reputable billion dollar companies”. Also seems like an AI generated list, or copied from Wikipedia? If that’s the best you can find, yeah there’s no issue.

No one should be giving some random anti-cheat program made by who knows who kennel level access, but one by EA? Fine. EA aren’t in the business of getting bankrupted by installing rootkit malware with their video game anti-cheat.

Calling anti-cheat “spyware” is dumb.

SDR content looking bad when HDR is enabled, especially just the desktop and basic OS, has been a thing for years on windows. Guessing you either didn’t actually have a real HDR monitor, or just didn’t realise it shouldn’t look like what it did.

Cloud-based use of AI doesn’t mean that they use your data for training or anything either - if you’d spent even 2 minutes looking at copilot in Windows you’d know this. On device or in cloud, you have privacy settings that control it.

Maybe, but that’s not at all relevant here.

He’s not getting paid a trillion a year - he’s getting paid $0. They pay you $1mil a year and go nowhere good. They pay him nothing and if they hit goals people say are impossible he gets a trillion.

Is this your first time reading about the stock market? It’s all about “hype” and “bubbles”.

Teslas are still the gold standard of EVs. They’re not the cheapest, but they’re what everyone wants.

You not having the capacity to understand very basic concepts and examples doesn’t mean my communication skills are bad. It means you lack the capacity to understand very basic concepts and examples.

Best of luck, you’ll need it.

Oh can we just lie about things to suit our argument now?

But you can just sign up to anywhere on the fediverse, you don’t need to host your own server. What benefits do you get for hosting your own server with only you as a user?

Cool, not what the other person and I were talking about before you jumped in.

Because then you’d have big companies going around actively trying to bankrupt other smaller companies to get their source code released, so they could then use it for themselves.

It’s nothing like product warranties either.

He said he has a Gmail account though.

You’re not allowed to distribute GoG games so you don’t own them.

But the assurance you spoke about is consumer assurance? So you’re saying that your suggestion wouldn’t even apply to video games while suggesting it for video games?

The only thing new about it is the AI.

Cool, and no laws have been changed, and it’s debatable if any should.

None of that is “relatively minimal effort” other than releasing the source code, which is not something that should ever be mandated.

This is standard practice in industry - you don’t buy something without assurance that if the company goes under you have options.

Which industries is this standard in? I can’t think of any. If Samsung went bankrupt who is replacing your S25 Ultra?

Sure, but has the law made licenses for software illegal/unenforceable? No.