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submitted 1 year ago by kolorafa@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

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[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No no, not at all - I agree with you, if you sell something to someone you shouldn't be able to just take it back arbitrarily.

However, OP is talking about forcing companies to open source something they created - and while I love open source and am a big supporter of it, I don't think that's necessarily right either.

this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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