Microsoft is buying up companies to stockpile IP. Simple as that.

Then they have a lot of redundant workers so they let them go, leaving the IP in their hands to be filed away for potential lawsuits against infringers.

Remember when reddit used to have great AMAs to look forward to? Or when askreddit wasn't all sex questions from 13 year old kids? Or when wtf was actually wtf content? Ah the good old days.

This always comes down to the fact that labor is competitive. Why pay someone $200k/yeae when someone will do the job for $80k/year? Competition drives the prices of labor down. Maybe there needs to be better regulation for labor competition like corporations enjoy.

Just the cost of doing business. I bet they made more on the sale.

Lol, free speech doesn't mean he is free from the consequences. The gag order is there to protect him from breaking the law as much as its there to protect the jurors from intimidation by him. Is free to break the gag order I'd he wants, he'll just have to pay the consequences if he chooses that option.

Everyone is laughing at Don Poorleone

Yea, it's pseudo code.

The answer is 6. It's 6 characters long.

This is pretty fantastic. I have two kids that I share with, and when one plays any game from my library currently, my entire library gets locked out from the other kid. Changing this to a game by game basis makes so much more sense.

Suing Boeing? Better hope he doesn't get suicided

I'm waiting for the day when actors and game devs refuse to work on things owned by WB because the risk of wasting their time and efforts is too damn high.

As was said elsewhere, this now makes Donald Trump 'for sale' so anyone can get favors to help him financially.