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They'll copy Steam's source code, patent it, and then sue Steam for infringement.
And that's perfectly fine and legal because patents are 'first to file'
Because their legal system is captured by people who don't give a fuck about what's right and who see "competition" as something that needs to be squashed rather than encouraged.
Yeah π₯
Hate this place.
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but patents are very much (supposed to be) required to be innovative, as in if there's any "prior art" (i.e. anything evidence of it already existing either in another patent or just publicly) then you can't patent it
I'm sure lots of things are "supposed to be" a certain way, but in true American fashion, most of these kinds of laws aren't enforced until the parties end up in court.
You know, the courts that are famously impartial and who never rule along ideological or party lines, are never swayed by whoever has the "better" lawyers, and are never biased against minoities. Oh, and litigation is super cheap too, and so frivolous lawsuits definitely can't be used as financial weapons.
How do you imagine they patent a fork of Linux?
They already tried patent trolling for over a decade before they gave up... (Look up "Microsoft Novell-Suse patent trolling")
I wouldn't put it past them to try...
As I said, they tried it at the height of their power and failed. I find it far more likely that winblows becomes a Linux distro. It fits their EEE motto a lot better.
Some bullshit to do with vibe coding a copy, then make some important new feature and patent that. Then require all new games on windows to support that. Some bullshit like that. Make direct 13 as incompatible with translations to vulkan as possible.
You think Microslop can vibe code an OS that's competitive with Linux?
not linux, the steam client
And what's that going to accomplish? The steam client isn't magically improving performance, their kernel patches are.