Chris Angelico wrote:
You cannot, to my knowledge, publish a game for the PS4 or Xbox 360 without permission from Nintendo or Microsoft.
That's because, since we *do* have copyright laws, the manufacturers of the consoles are able to make money by selling the software as well as the hardware -- and they want a monopoly on that source of income. If there was no copyright, they wouldn't be able to make money from the software side alone, so there would be no incentive for them to lock things down that way. The opposite, in fact -- the more games are available for a machine, the more people are going to want to buy it.
Nobody can sell software without also selling hardware, which is an expensive industry to get into.
I don't follow what you're saying here. Are you suggesting that nobody would write any software for someone else's hardware if they couldn't sell it for money? Experience with the open source community that we do have suggests otherwise. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
