Recent content by Adraeus

Yahtzee didn't say that. He wrote: Yahtzee was alluding to the misogyny of GamerGate and the moralizing of SJWs, and he actually claimed that neither have had a negative impact on the games he has played. Whether misogyny and moralizing have had a negative impact on the game industry is not...

The corollary to this is that all those "boycotts" of DRM-protected games haven't shifted sales in either direction, too. So, what exactly is the problem? The relatively few people who pirate games are forced to wait for working cracks? That warez groups have to crack games before they...

An incorrect spelling of the word "masturbatory [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masturbatory]."

You're looking for hard sci-fi in the wrong TV series about aliens who travel through space and time in police boxes.

I linked the thread in my first response to Pyrian [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/7.850620.21018248].

No, assignment of inventions agreements are valid and enforceable in California. There are merely some limitations. See California Labor Code Section 2870 [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&group=02001-03000&file=2870-2872] for the legal text. If the employee used...

Read my posts in this thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.849215-Is-ZeniMax-Being-a-Patentless-Troll-in-Its-Claim-Against-Oculus]. Apples and oranges. Being a great engineer has nothing to do with being smart about contracts. They sure are. Assignment of Inventions language...

Thank you! I said it's out of left field because patent law has nothing to do with this case. A patent doesn't need to exist for there to be an invention. Source code also doesn't need to exist. While tangible work product would make the case simpler, those are red herrings, for now. I...

Oculus VR released a statement on Monday [http://kotaku.com/the-oculus-vs-zenimax-battle-is-heating-up-1571812928]. Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR. Luckey entered into a NDA with ZeniMax. This means that ZeniMax wanted to hold a protected conversation with Oculus VR. You don't hold a...

There's an NDA on the field.

Good luck with that! This is how these things usually go down: The first sign of trouble is always too late. That's why there are contracts. Contracts exist for when things go wrong.

You said "even in their free time," which meant you were talking about more than one thing. If you meant only "in their free time," you should have said that. You can... after they've already taken advantage of you. If they signed an assignment of inventions agreement, you would be in a...

Let's say you started a company and hired some people. Of those employees, a few decide to start their own company, but instead of leaving your employ, they take advantage of: - the time for which you're paying them good money; - the capital you allocated to the project to which they were...

@Shamus Young: It's kind of vague because there's an NDA at play. Per Oculus VR, "Zenimax has misstated the purposes and language of the Zenimax non-disclosure agreement that Palmer Luckey signed." None of this matters. Look up "assignment of inventions...

Since when? I've been trying to get badly outdated information on my profile merely changed for, I don't know, 10 years.