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Perth Game Company CEO Takes IP By Night
snicho99 writes "A US owned gaming company has fled Australia, leaving unpaid employees and a massive tax bill. Apparently many staff have been working unpaid for months to allow their game to ship and hopefully the company to recover. Interzone's Perth (Western Australia) office was created with the assistance of a state government grant. Last week Interzone's (American) CEO
entered the building at night and removed all the servers and IP so that Interzone could continue production at a new company they have opened in Ireland. The staff caught him on camera. More background here."
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Actually I'm asking slashdot. How I am supposed to fight the cheapo crappy pizza places when I offer quality pizzas? Does it matter to keep quality? What you love about pizza?
I love my pizzas to be as cheap as possible.
But why? Apart from the usual everything-as-cheap-as-possible, the pizzas on crap places taste shit. And it's not like it's much different - $1-2 and you get a lot better ingredients, crust and service. If anyone has ever visited any of those cheap pizza places in Europe, you know what I'm talking about.
Australia is part of Asia. A decent proportion of our population are of Asian origin. If you're talking about foreign computer science students who want to stay on in Perth to make games, the percentage goes up even higher. :) That said, though IZ was a very diverse group of people from all over the world.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
"He just made a copy, nothing was lost. It's not stealing."
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot the map demarcations on Wikipedia define whether or not we're part of Asia or not.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot the claims of one random person on Slashdot define whether a country is part of Asia or not.
Piss off fractoid, If that's your real name.
In the late 80's, a big movement in Aus tried to block
the yellow menace, but it didn't get it's shit together.
Now, We (USA) and Aus and other countries struggling to
keep all "citizens" employed are overrun with Illegals
and green card suckers that pull the rates to min wage
levels.
Fuck them, deport them all. Stop all imports and block
the borders. Kill all foreign aid and use the money to
rebuild the country. Let Darwin kill off the weak and reduce
the population by 50%. It can only be good, for US.
for a day or two, and then shoot him in the head. One less psychopath in the world can only be a good thing.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Maybe it's time the techies realized that they are working class and not the professional class many have thought of themselves.
I've found it amusing for quite a while that developers call themselves "engineers" despite not following any forms of engineering practice. Not to say there aren't software engineers, but they're few and far between, maybe 1% or so of developers. Most are really just tradesmen. Just like weavers.
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I think I will take the Linux source code, apply it to my personal OS and slap some advertisements on it to make money. Than I will not share the code at all.
Its not like you guys had anything stolen from you, I just made a copy and you still have yours.
Uhm, I'm guessing you're not in the US. You're certainly not in California (which is currently at war against small business).
I won't join Slashcott. OTOH, If Beta goes live, I just won't be back until it's fixed. Sorry Dice.