[karajorma]

You evidently were playing freelancer all wrong. The only purpose of that game was to deliberately choose never to actually be ready for missions so that you could piss off your companions.

That and stare at Juni's arse.

[TrashMan]

That and stare at Juni's arse.

 

[ns161]

Ok, I have some legal training and I state this with the caveat that I have NOT yet taken patent law.

But it looks to me like Interplay at some point "assigned" the IP to Microsoft (probably to avoid having it auctioned off in some kind of bankruptcy proceeding) and then Microsoft assigned it back to Interplay in 2002.

Now what that means in terms of ownership?  I don't really know.

I can be reasonably sure of one thing though, "Assign" is almost certainly not the same as "Own".  I don't know quite what it means, but they are probably two different concepts.  Legal writing is very specific and if they meant to say "Own" they would've said "Own"

[spartan_0214]

In layman's terms, it means that Interplay can no longer work on any further FreeSpace games. And since Volition is all but bankrupt (I know, I know, just released a new game, but Tarr Chronicles was meh) the FreeSpace community will have to stick to open-source modification for now (which isn't terrible, all things considered).

[achtung]

In layman's terms, it means that Interplay can no longer work on any further FreeSpace games. And since Volition is all but bankrupt (I know, I know, just released a new game, but Tarr Chronicles was meh) the FreeSpace community will have to stick to open-source modification for now (which isn't terrible, all things considered).

[BlackDove]

In layman's terms, it means that Interplay can no longer work on any further FreeSpace games. And since Volition is all but bankrupt (I know, I know, just released a new game, but Tarr Chronicles was meh) the FreeSpace community will have to stick to open-source modification for now (which isn't terrible, all things considered).

You manage to be wrong several times in those two sentences. Truly a feat. Keep writing, maybe you'll break the record.

[Bob-san]

In layman's terms, it means that Interplay can no longer work on any further FreeSpace games. And since Volition is all but bankrupt (I know, I know, just released a new game, but Tarr Chronicles was meh) the FreeSpace community will have to stick to open-source modification for now (which isn't terrible, all things considered).

You manage to be wrong several times in those two sentences. Truly a feat. Keep writing, maybe you'll break the record.

From what I understand--Interplay saved the Freespace license by letting Microsoft "borrow" it--then when they had a budget in place to survive, they had it returned. Somebody in Interplay knows somebody in Microsoft--and let the dealing work. It seems that the Freespace IP is back in Interplay's quite clamy hands. In effect, nothing has changed. Maybe they were planning to do some Freespace 3 for XBox.

[Colonol Dekker]

Microsofts nature gives the impression that if they were ever "given" ownership (temporary or otherwise) they would just "not" give it back....


Kinda like the president of Cuba in that Trillion Dollar Bill episode of the simpsons.

[Getter Robo G]

you know when I posted back in like 2003, we ran more copies (less than 1500) off the presses. I did look at the paperwork briefly and it said INTERPLAY at the top not Microsoft.

Unless the order sent to us was illegal (then I doubt we would be liable since it was in good faith and all the t's crossed and I's dotted correctly) we just pull the masters off the shelf and run the order. Was probably back when schoolpop.com sold it online... AFAIK we hadn't had a FS2 order since and I doubt we still have the masters anymore after the last archive purge.