Wouldn’t the easiest way out for this just be to throw a repo up and say “host your own servers, go away.”
It feels like that would be an approach that would be simple and cheap to deliver (they don’t have to handhold any of it) but makes them look magnamanous-- “you’ll be able to show your kids this game or get a nostalgia kick even 20 years for now, like how your dad pulled out the Atari 2600”.
EA now being a model to aspire to?! What next? Cats chasing dogs? Sunshine at midnight? America showing responsible global leadership? nVidia making a fairly priced GPU?
That would set a precedent that they have to do that every time, and would effectively be a win for consumers. I’d love it if this happened, but it won’t. They’ll fight it to the end
Wouldn’t the easiest way out for this just be to throw a repo up and say “host your own servers, go away.”
It feels like that would be an approach that would be simple and cheap to deliver (they don’t have to handhold any of it) but makes them look magnamanous-- “you’ll be able to show your kids this game or get a nostalgia kick even 20 years for now, like how your dad pulled out the Atari 2600”.
Funny enough, EA did exactly that.
EA now being a model to aspire to?! What next? Cats chasing dogs? Sunshine at midnight? America showing responsible global leadership? nVidia making a fairly priced GPU?
Right!?
that’s what the other side wants them to do, yes.
servers are probably to tightly integrated into ubi’s infra to publish but they don’t want to say that.
I figure it would be the “good enough compliance gesture” like when router makers dunp a barely-building code sample to comply with the GPL.
That would set a precedent that they have to do that every time, and would effectively be a win for consumers. I’d love it if this happened, but it won’t. They’ll fight it to the end