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"Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco (mobilegamer.biz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A major partner told John Riccitiello personally that it will not pay the Runtime Fee – and in the strongest possible terms.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Corps devoting their resources to lobby against FOSS.

That has been a decades long battle. They'll never win the war.

Microsoft was 100% against Linux 15 years ago. Now there is a Linux subsystem sitting next to the core of the OS.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

And honestly it seems like FOSS solutions are way more usable these days. In the old days it was a huge hit in either features or UI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, they've taken an “if you can't beat them, join them” approach to FOSS for a while now.