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If the lawsuit actually ends up costing billions or hundreds of millions, they could have funded an open VR project on a scale larger than all of Ubuntu instead
by mcbits 10y ago
If the lawsuit actually ends up costing billions or hundreds of millions, they could have funded an open VR project on a scale larger than all of Ubuntu instead.
- tener 10y agoI doubt their plan was to get sued.
- mcbits 10y agoNo, but they were probably planning (originally) to license the software. Maybe not at the full $1,000 retail or for 550,000+ computers... I wonder how the software would compare to the commercial offering if they had hired 100 independent contractors at $150k to develop it in the open. Incidentally, it looks like development was funded in part by the German government, but I can't find anything to indicate how much. http://www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/2013/bsstudio http://www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/2013/bsstudio