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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But also, in a world where such a law did exist, it would naturally force every third-party to create their contracts in a way that would allow the eventual release of the source code, or lose out on the deal and subsequently, the money.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

When we are talking about laws, yes you are right.

I was arguing more about developers not releasing the source code on their own, when they stopped releasing patches, or even remove the game from stores or shutdown servers, while stating that reason: "We cannot because we use third-party stuff."

No, they just do not want to. They might even think that their past games are in competition to their current games. So they do not want people to play (and improve/mod) them anymore.