Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by olliej on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:30PM (#18650512)

Well I mean this seems entirely reasonable to me - I’m not sure but I suspect he isn’t an engineer, and even if he is, why waste time and money on designing something that has already been designed and built?

I’m also surprised that so many people in the comments are against this, especially given how often I’ve seen people on HN arguing we should be getting rid of IP law.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by throwaway2016a on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:34PM (#18650535)

> especially given how often I’ve seen people on HN arguing we should be getting rid of IP law.

Anecdotally, after years of being on HN I can't recall anyone arguing to get rid of copyright.

Tons of arguments for getting rid of software patents, strengthening fair use, and putting abandonware in the public domain but flat out against copyright as a concept is a bit extreme for NH.

Again, just an anecdote based on my experience.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by olliej on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:40PM (#18650581)

There was a post a few weeks about getting rid of IP laws, with many comments from many people arguing that we should definitely get rid of all IP laws, including copyright.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by throwaway2016a on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:32PM (#18650964)

I must have missed that one. Again, just an anecdote, not saying that people who want to get rid of all copyright don't exist just that I haven't seen them.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by olliej on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:01PM (#18651520)

We’re on the internet, anecdotes should always be treated as facts :)

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by beckler on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:49PM (#18650644)

I can't remember who made them, but older System76 machines were not made by System76.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by monocasa on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:22PM (#18650892)

They were rebadged Clevos, like most of the boutique laptops out there (Alienware, what have you).

To be fair, whenever that's brought up here, they normally drop in and say that they worked with Clevo to design a SKU that would have great Linux support out of the box.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by barbecue_sauce on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:08PM (#18650811)

HN is not a monolith.

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