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Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff (www.ign.com)
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[โ€“] frazw 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They wanted the IP not the staff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And people thought 14 years of copyright was too short... you play capitalist games of granting virtually infinite monopolies (trademarks are incredibly effective at restricting the public domain), as property to sell and trade to the highest bidders, the public domain be damned, and you get capitalist prizes like massive layoffs and unemployment and a deteriorating, corporation-owned culture