On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> You cannot, to >> my knowledge, publish a game for the PS4 or Xbox 360 without >> permission from Nintendo or Microsoft. > > > That's because, since we *do* have copyright laws, the > manufacturers of the consoles are able to make money by > selling the software as well as the hardware -- and they > want a monopoly on that source of income. > > If there was no copyright, they wouldn't be able to > make money from the software side alone, so there would > be no incentive for them to lock things down that way. > The opposite, in fact -- the more games are available > for a machine, the more people are going to want to > buy it. > >> Nobody can sell software without also selling >> hardware, which is an expensive industry to get into. > > > I don't follow what you're saying here. Are you suggesting > that nobody would write any software for someone else's > hardware if they couldn't sell it for money? Experience > with the open source community that we do have suggests > otherwise. >
Nice work there. You trimmed key parts of my post, and then responded to me out of context. Go back and read my actual post, then respond to what I actually said. Thanks! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
