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wow, they "killed" an open source project.... did they really think it was that easy?
I mean they also got 2.4 mil and they can continue collecting them from new projects
They haven't gotten the money yet, and they probably never will get the full amount.
They probably won't even be taking anyone else to court, either. Ryujinx will probably make major changes or shut down entirely to avoid getting sued in the first place.
Why do you say this?
I'm guessing the project was run as an LLC and the LLC will just go bankrupt.
That's on paper. It's extremely unlikely that they set an LLC with millions of dollars in assets. The reason they set up the LLC was that if they got sued they could settle for any amount, knowing that they would just declare bankruptcy and pay nothing except their legal fees (which, having settled immediately, are very low)
The main developers won't be touching it. That's a pretty big deal since they were the lifeblood of the project.
Potentially recoverable, but still a big deal.
Second. There's no chance that a "reputable" site. Like GitHub, gitlab, etc will be hosting any of these projects for long. That's significant too.
Projects like this should be self-hosted & encourage contributors to set up their own self-hosted mirrors to make sure the code is both distributed & decentralized which users/makers have full control over their platform.
It possibly seeing a legal precedent is the scary part.
Settling out of court is not setting a legal precedent
And that's probably why Yuzu didn't stand up to Nintendo. They probably had enough areas for Nintendo to attack that fighting it could leave the emulator community worse off if it goes to trial. Why risk the money to fight something unless you're sure you can win?
Maybe. My guess is they just didn't want to go through the trouble, since it would have been a long war.