For the uninitiated, the Mormon church has more than $200 billion in a “rainy day” investment fund they created using the tithes they demand from their members, with an estimated $7 billion more being added to their reserves each year from tithes and donations alone.

I believe a province in Canada was also trying it with promising results until a right-wing politician got elected and scrapped the trial program.

I would point at Android as an example of what would happen. It’s not public domain but the end result is similar, namely that the open source originator (AOSP) suffers from a severe lack of features compared to the commercial offerings.

The default AOSP apps are incredibly barebones compared to the ones Google and the carriers put in their ROMs. You have to choose between “have nothing more than the basic features and compatibility with only well-established services” or “get the latest and greatest with all the bells and whistles (plus a huge heaping of telemetry and invasive advertising)”.

It turns out it’s really hard to compete with a major corporation who can throw entire teams at a problem and can legally copy anything you add to your own version. That’s not even getting into the things that open source projects lack due to their haphazard team structure such as unified UX designs (Blender pre-2.8 and GIMP pre-3.0/unified window mode being the most famous examples of terrible user interfaces that lingered for far too many years).

It’s part of a popular franchise, mostly known in the West due to the NES game River City Ransom (which this is a sequel to/spinoff of). It reviewed well and is popular among fans of beat-em-ups.

Or when someone read two sections and the teacher didn’t stop them.

By that logic most of Star Trek isn’t canon. Lemmy would be in shambles!

I can’t think of a game that deserves a modern VR remake more than Black and White. I wonder who owns the rights these days?