Quoting: Nim8Crytek suffered from this when they licensed CryEngine to Star Citizen - Crytek had a deal where, in exchange for opening the source code and assistance, they'd get access to bug fixes and optimisation improvements made by Star Citizen. But Crytek was in financial trouble and sold a copy of their engine to Amazon, who released it for free with an unethical anti-competitive restriction (that games that uses it have to rely on Amazon's Twitch / AWS integration IIRC). Star Citizen got away with not giving code back by "switching" to Amazon's copy : https://bit-tech.net/news/gaming/crytek-sues-cig-rsi-over-star-citizen/1/ . Star Citizen eventually settled out of court with Crytek, presumably when they got enough money to cover damages.

Actually, as part of the discovery for that particular lawsuit it was found that CIG had submitted all their changes and improvements upstream to CryTek as required by the contract, it was just that CryTek hadn't wanted to spend the engineer time to actually merge the changes back into the main CryEngine sources.

The entire lawsuit was quite the circus; the contract was written in a really odd way, CryTek tried to argue that the contract didn't allow use of the engine for the two games the contract explicitly listed, they tried to redefine legal terms to make an exclusive contract mean that CIG would've been required by law to continue using CryEngine, tried to argue that Lumberyard's license couldn't be used in the ways it expressly permitted, tried to have discovery require information that CIG would've been legally unable to provide, not to mention that discovery showed that several of their claims were false on their face, and the ones that were potentially valid had an explicit clause in the contract preventing any monetary damages - technically making the entire suit invalid from the start.

Absolutely insane from start to finish.

The main reason they finally settled was probably just to avoid throwing ridiculous sums into the black hole that would've been discovery, since neither side would've won anything from the result anyway.

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It's nice to see some love given to this old classic, a little uncertain about the priorities in the roadmap though - and regarding the further ideas as well.
Will have to have a further look through the code at a later point, see if I can help in some part.

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Quoting: omer666I'm a fan of Introversion Software, bought their full shareware catalogue back in the day (way before Steam on Linux.) Uplink more particularly holds a special place in my heart, and IMHO has never been dethroned as the best hacking videogame ever.

Uplink is an absolutely amazing game. Absolutely love some of its more joke-y features too, like the code card entry for "account creation", the wargames server, or even the network-attached monitor support.

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Quoting: TurkeysteaksOh man, can't believe it's been 5 years already
I remember trying to get warframe to work on linux over the course of a few years prior to proton. Always still somewhat broken, and eventually gave up on it to play other games.

I've still got the GitHub repo where I helped build a more Proton-friendly launcher for Warframe, to improve on the bash hack that GE had done previously. As it turns out, DE built their CDN almost identically to another MMO project I'd worked on previously, so I was able to strip out the authentication and UI/branding code from that launcher and basically just point it at the Warframe URLs.

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Been a while since I decided on joining one of their beta updates this quickly, that focus stealing issue has been a real pain for me - and the update does deliver on fixing it.

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Yeah, the current RC phase unfortunately became a long one, we ran into a bunch of issues that ended up becoming blockers for a small subset of players - we've hopefully gotten those fixed with this latest RC11.

Spoiler, click me

Don't tell anyone, but we were originally hoping to have had the full release done during the weekend.

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Yikes. And I've been using GPL for ages now, to help test it in other places.
Apparently having 64GB of RAM and mainly running in-development games that are known to be RAM hungry means you don't notice driver inefficiencies.

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Amusingly enough, Steam has been using a fork of Flatpak for their own runtime for a while at this point, so I guess this means people will soon be running Flatpak inside of Snap.

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It's nice to see that Flatpak - and Flathub as the default store - are continuing to focus on improving the desktop experience not just for the user, but for the developer as well.

Hopefully the system they build for doing the entitling of purchased applications is something that's going to be usable for more Flatpak repositories than just Flathub, since there's really not any good ways to distribute paid Linux applications right now, especially not in a way that lets them properly integrate with the system.

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Love to see it, wonder if the plugin-ability will help ChimeraOS and the like

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