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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by xtracto on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:07PM (#23252526)
That´s good learning by Microsoft: In the 1990s they "competed" against Netscape with the "free" web browser... it was shocking that they gave it for free, but in reality they were buying eyeballs.

Nowadays, they have seen that if they provide software as "open source", and not only "free", not only do they get eyeballs, they also get "feel good" points from the community, and I assume they use that to attract customers to their revenue streams (Azure I guess).

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by josefx on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:05AM (#23256633)
> it was shocking that they gave it for free

It certainly shocked the developers of its engine. They licensed it to Microsoft for a share of the profit and ended up suing Microsoft over that stunt.

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by xtracto on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:56PM (#23264179)
That's very interesting! Do you happen to have any reference where I can read more about it? (a search on internet explorer profit licensed lawsuit didn't show anything relevant).
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by josefx on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:42PM (#23264921)
They may not have actually sued, just threatened Microsoft with an audit.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.#Browser_wars

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