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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by Svekax on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:27AM (#14453245)
The ones that were weren't fired and replaced with Mexican "interns" working full time for $200 per month.

https://www.destructoid.com/former-kerbal-space-program-deve...

I wonder if Take-Two Interactive considered the morality of acquiring a company that paid slave wages. Maybe they should change their name to Take-Two Thousand Annually.

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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by MrZongle2 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:33AM (#14453291)
Take-Two appears to have purchased the KSP property, not Squad, the original owning company.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by Svekax on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:47AM (#14453410)
What is your point?
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by mcphage on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:53AM (#14453457)
Well, you asked:

> I wonder if Take-Two Interactive considered the morality of acquiring a company that paid slave wages.

But they didn't acquire the company.

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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by pavel_lishin on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:33PM (#14454827)
Are you suggesting that KSP is eternally tainted by Squad's actions? Should we burn the code, and start from scratch?
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by ionised on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:58AM (#14453498)
You said acquiring the company, which they didn't.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by golergka on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:28PM (#14455228)
A wage that is agreed upon by both parties without coercion is not, by definition, a 'slave wage'. Yes, there are poor people who live in hellholes and are used to much lower salaries than you and me. It may make us feel uncomfortable or guilty, because we don't 'feel' as if we 'truly' deserve so much more money than them. But thankfully, following irrational feeling of injustice is not the only foundation of ethics that we have.
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