Some bullshit to do with vibe coding a copy, then make some important new feature and patent that. Then require all new games on windows to support that. Some bullshit like that. Make direct 13 as incompatible with translations to vulkan as possible.
Because their legal system is captured by people who don’t give a fuck about what’s right and who see “competition” as something that needs to be squashed rather than encouraged.
They’ll copy Steam’s source code, patent it, and then sue Steam for infringement.
How do you imagine they patent a fork of Linux?
They already tried patent trolling for over a decade before they gave up… (Look up “Microsoft Novell-Suse patent trolling”)
I wouldn’t put it past them to try…
Some bullshit to do with vibe coding a copy, then make some important new feature and patent that. Then require all new games on windows to support that. Some bullshit like that. Make direct 13 as incompatible with translations to vulkan as possible.
And that’s perfectly fine and legal because patents are ‘first to file’
Because their legal system is captured by people who don’t give a fuck about what’s right and who see “competition” as something that needs to be squashed rather than encouraged.