Zynga plans to appeal and confirms no games will be affected.
Patents aid in genocide.
There are hundreds of thousands of industrial processes that we need to change and innovate to combat climate change. Any small innovation will be patented and then potentially exploited to extract the maximum amount of profit. This reduces the pace of innovation generally, and makes greener more energy efficient solutions slower to be adopted.
Similar can be argued about advertising in general of course, they lead to more consumerism and more resource and energy use and why first world has such insane GHG per capita.
UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 day ago
All I can say is yikes.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 day ago
I’m sure the patent made sense at the time, but it seems pretty generic now. Additionally, shouldn’t the patent have expired at this point? Why is it still being enforced?
moody@lemmings.world 1 day ago
That was my thoughts. Patents normally expire after 20 years, so how is a patent from the 80s still valid after nearly 40?
krigo666@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, bullshit patents.
huginn@feddit.it 1 day ago
Every single phone application does this. The entire Google and Apple app store economy is built on the local host doing something to make it easier on the servers.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
A good chunk of the internet in general as well.