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If M$ made a first-person-perspective shooter, it would be identical to Quake. The two would be so similar that no-one would want to play both. Microsoft would call their game "Quack." Bots, skins, and servers for Quack would not work with Quake. Microsoft would then bundle a copy of Quack with every copy of Windows sold. And Quack would be technically impossible to uninstall.
If no-one got the Quack/Quake joke, it's a reference to what Microsoft was accused of doing during their anti-trust trial. Like, you know, what they did to Nestcape. And their tactic of deliberately writing proprietary file formats to lock people into using their products.
It's also exactly what they would do if they wanted to compete with Id Software.
I came across this thread as I was pondering how my Win98 stuff is no longer supported yet all of the hardware and even some from DOS days still works. Just the OSes are broke. Good thing MS didn't make my eleven year old car or I'd be walking.
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Who ended up winning in the anti-trust trial?
Doesn't matter, in this free market economy we're all voting with our feet. Well except for the attempts to patent air and the like.
I once saw an airline application where you were required to sign over the rights to any intellectual property that you might create during your tenure at the company. It was worded so as to also include anything done on your own time. All that just to be a pilot! I never bothered with those greedy......
Anyhow, IP is created by individuals not corporations, remove the incentives and the producers just sit down. Where is the valley?
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