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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by bunbun69 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:57AM (#35972436)
If you're going to be making millions of money using tech invented by others then the least you could do is create an agreement and properly license the tech.

Valve can afford it with all the money they make from kids gambling on their games

edit: Valve makes $54M/month with their csgo gambling cases

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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by suddenclarity on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:07AM (#35972490)
The company is buying up patents and suing people based on the most generic claims. Hardly the good guys.
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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by anakaine on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:36AM (#35972666)
Immersion was founded in 1993. Haptic technology has been around since the 1960s. Let's not conflate paying inventors with paying patent holders.
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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by shjake on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:22AM (#35972570)
I’m not so sure that feeding patent trolls is the best idea…
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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by yellow_lead on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:06AM (#35972485)
By "tech" you mean, a vibrating controller?
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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by xcv123 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:42AM (#35972692)
> tech invented by others

It's an electric motor spinning a lopsided piece of metal. Primitive caveman "tech" that was known about before that company existed. They're a patent troll.

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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by caporaltito on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:20AM (#35972925)
An idea is not a technology. Making a controller vibrate to give the player or user feedback is an idea. Filing a patent on an idea is called patent trolling and should be heavily punished.
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