It says in the article that he explicitly stated it was a clone, so yeah. only bad thing was being kinda a jerk when asked to take it down

Exactly. It feels more like making a snake clone with fun features. Second guy learned some stuff, but was a dick about it. Ultimately no one was hurt tho and this doesn’t seem like a big deal

But games and art aren’t exactly like that. People train by copying great art, and code and games especially are iterative. It’s not like he took a super useful thing and made millions by claiming he invented it. He took a game, made a clone and added features, admitting it was a clone. Like snake and pong and brickbreaker.

Maybe I’m bad at itch.io but it looks like they are both free. Lemme offer another analogy.

Your and your friend have sandwhich parties and one day you compare notes. Your friend’s sandwich is really good, so you make it yourself and add some things. Now you really like the sandwich so you throw a sandwhcih party with the new sandwich and tell everyone it’s based on your friend’s sandwich.

Then your friend asks why you coppied his sandwich and you’re a jerk about.

That’s how this reads to me

Guess I just don’t understand how it screws the other guy

I feel like it matters that he’s not selling it though… He liked the idea, added features he liked and is sharing what he made. He also mentions that it’s a clone. He sounds like a jerk, but like…

But if it was illegal to research 99% of your current field even if the information existed you may feel differently

Especially because people who want to pirate games for playing have no qualms. Right now the restriction is specificall on people who want to research legally

it’s like you’ve never heard of roommates. If you get a third job and find a couple people, i’m sure you could afford to rent a shed

Capitalism creates monopoly. The consumer’s needs can be manufactured. In a society organized around capital shareholder needs are paramount.

Very much a strawman argument. China can offer cheap electric cars because they aren’t paying american car company CEOs. Also, your argument supposes that American manufacturers aren’t supporting IDF…

lol

Voting with your dollar is a myth (it’s a myth that workers have any vote, not that the dollar controls the imperial core). China offering a viable alternative to not being able to afford cars because companies have arbitrarily inflated prices is great. Arbitrarily spending a lot more money that will mostly go to shareholders in the US is not going to help the worker

the lobby tvs are so annoying. if i’m alone for a while, i turn one off for a quiet section of the room

I’m just bad at reading sarcasm sometimes. Probably you were obvious and it went over my head

No, I was hoping it’d be confirmed when I mentiomed it could be tongue in cheek. Doesn’t always come across in a thread where some are unironically making the same point.

Where in that article do you read that?

Maybe we’re reading something different, or this is tongue and cheek but "Alibaba’s research arm, the Damo Academy, " sounds like research arm is a synonym for “research division” or “research department”.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computer

I can see where this came from. ARM and RISC-V are both reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architechtures but are not the same. Arm is a proprietary ISA originally from Acorn. Risc-v is a new ISA developed completely open-source

EDIT: also, not to be killjoy, but for clarity “research arm” means apendage or division and is completely unrelated