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> "not for entertainment purposes" That's kind of a weird stipulation: fun is prohibited.
by tmearnest 9y ago
> "not for entertainment purposes"
That's kind of a weird stipulation: fun is prohibited.
- Macha 9y agoThe general consensus among the flight sim community is that their license from Microsoft forbade them selling it as a video game, to avoid them competing with first Microsoft and later Dovetail.
- archon 9y agoLicensing is weird sometimes.
- ThrowawayFS 9y agoThere's actually a reason for that: Microsoft had a separate product called ESP [1] that was based on the Flight Simulator codebase that was marketed as a platform for doing industrial training simulations. Development stopped with the dissolution of ACES, the Flight Simulator team, but Lockheed acquired rights to continue to develop MS ESP, which eventually became Lockheed's Prepare3d [2]. [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526948.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526948.aspx [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Closure_of_the_ACES_Game_Studio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Clo...