(No clue what they're up to now, or even if they decided to stick it out with Rare. I do know that not one of the brothers is president of Rare anymore.).
I'm not sure if this is the case with the Stamper brothers, but I heard some of Rare's more talented employee's rent to work for Free Radical. Free Radical is responsible for the TimeSplitters series.
They are evil because they use that monopoly unfairly, to illegally (attempt to) dominate other areas. They are evil because of their unethical and illegal business practices: buying out or crushing all competition, secret agreements with vendors, spreading lies, putting profits over user experience and security, doing their utmost to prevent interoperability with other software and systems, continually breaking the spirit and the letter of anti-trust agreements, and much more.
And all of this time I thought they did those things because they loved me!
My uncle worked for Westinghouse some 30 years ago, as an EE. If I remember correctly he worked in their portable radio division. Westinghouse designed and manufactured the radios in New Jersey.
After some time of having a successful product, a company from Japan offered to manufacture the radios for much cheaper, in Japan. Westinghouse closed down the manufacturing in New Jersey. All of the factory works were let go, and many of the engineers and lower management were let go too.
Sometime after they closed the plant down, they noticed that a competitor was theirs was selling a similar product, and at a much lower cost. It turns out the same company that was manufacturing the radios for Westinghouse, was making their own radios based on the same design.
There was nothing Westinghouse could do. They had always closed down the plant and most of the workers had moved on to other things. I think they actually made an attempt to get back into the game, but at that point it was too late. They basically dug their own gave, because they were only looking at the short-term gains.
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"I guess that after the way Valve has treated its customers, a lot of people don't see the problem in screwing Valve."
So as long as a company treats their customers "poorly", it's ok to steal from them?
(No clue what they're up to now, or even if they decided to stick it out with Rare. I do know that not one of the brothers is president of Rare anymore.). I'm not sure if this is the case with the Stamper brothers, but I heard some of Rare's more talented employee's rent to work for Free Radical. Free Radical is responsible for the TimeSplitters series.
They are evil because they use that monopoly unfairly, to illegally (attempt to) dominate other areas. They are evil because of their unethical and illegal business practices: buying out or crushing all competition, secret agreements with vendors, spreading lies, putting profits over user experience and security, doing their utmost to prevent interoperability with other software and systems, continually breaking the spirit and the letter of anti-trust agreements, and much more.
And all of this time I thought they did those things because they loved me!
You make some great points.
My uncle worked for Westinghouse some 30 years ago, as an EE. If I remember correctly he worked in their portable radio division. Westinghouse designed and manufactured the radios in New Jersey.
After some time of having a successful product, a company from Japan offered to manufacture the radios for much cheaper, in Japan. Westinghouse closed down the manufacturing in New Jersey. All of the factory works were let go, and many of the engineers and lower management were let go too.
Sometime after they closed the plant down, they noticed that a competitor was theirs was selling a similar product, and at a much lower cost. It turns out the same company that was manufacturing the radios for Westinghouse, was making their own radios based on the same design.
There was nothing Westinghouse could do. They had always closed down the plant and most of the workers had moved on to other things. I think they actually made an attempt to get back into the game, but at that point it was too late. They basically dug their own gave, because they were only looking at the short-term gains.
It looks like we are in for a similar ride.