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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by jeffbee on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:58AM (#25188095)
Well, they may have saved significantly more than $100 (or whatever a Switch costs) by having this software available. There certainly is precedent for compensating your open source contributors. When VA Linux had their IPO they granted options to buy 100 shares to their software contributors, which turned out to be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Red Hat had a similar program.
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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by jsnell on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:47AM (#25188652)
This appears to be the entirety of the code:

https://github.com/feross/safe-buffer/blob/master/index.js

It is 65 lines of Javascript that's mostly boilerplate. I doubt it saved them significantly more than the cost of manufacturing + shipping a Switch, or that they even used it directly. More likely this was just pulled in as an indirect dependency.

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