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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:57PM (#14142313)
Then they sold it, and the new owner is now pulling a Train Simulator and going for thousands of dollars of DLC on Steam, which will likely kill the entire modding community that kept FSX alive once they realize they can sell it on Steam. Kind of sad to watch such a historical product be squeezed for the last dollars in slow motion.

X-Plane 11 looks absolutely fantastic, thankfully. Might be about time to pay FSX a final salute, and nice to support X-Plane as a reward for standing up to patent trolls.

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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by Macha on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:45PM (#14143245)
There's actually two living forks. One is Dovetail Games' FSX: Steam Edition which you're talking about. The other is Prepar3d, sold by Lockheed. The license stipulates that it is "not for entertainment purposes", but otherwise it's basically just a port of FSX that works better in modern systems.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by tmearnest on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:59PM (#14143368)
> "not for entertainment purposes"

That's kind of a weird stipulation: fun is prohibited.

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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by Macha on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:44PM (#14143698)
The 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.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by ThrowawayFS on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:58PM (#14144234)
There'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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Clo...

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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by archon on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:48PM (#14143734)
Licensing is weird sometimes.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by chrisper on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:42PM (#14142718)
Can confirm. XP11 is amazing. Though be prepared to pay a lot for addons.
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