Quote Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack View Post
Hmm, I guess I didn't word it properly. I didn't look at it that way, Llama. I suppose they're really the only failsafes from large corporations taking over everything. It just ticks me off when you have to pay royalties for the stupidest patents.
YOU don't have to pay anything twards it haha, M$ does for using someone else's technology. I see it as how Epic gets paid for letting other people use the Unreal engine for their games. (I know that's now how it works, there's licenses and all that, and well... it's a similar situation)

It's just like how Activision pays Konami to use the guitar style controller for their Guitar Hero games. (Dunno if they do anymore, they used to for GH1-3 at least)

Quote Originally Posted by rossmum View Post
There's a pretty fucking thick line between getting a deserved share in it and just being a self-righteous fuckhead
In all honesty if you saw the opportunity to get your company a huge huge huge boost in profits off of a technology YOU made, wouldn't you jump on the opportunity? I know I would, just like Epic would sue the fuck out of another company if they used the UT3 engine without a license for it.

Moral of the story? Don't steal other people's shit.

That is, I'm just assuming this whole situation is valid. I'm not really talking specifically to this case, just the idea in general when this shit happens and screams bloody murder over some company expecting to get paid for work it did.