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Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"

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JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Lego is actually one of the very few companies that isn’t batshit crazy over video game IP. (Real life Lego clones are probably different though).

They even gave a shout out to Manic Miners (a rock raiders fan remake) on the official podcast and haven’t done anything to take it down. I can’t remember if they officially said they won’t do anything also

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daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Let’s give The LEGO Group some credit, They allow fan-made projects all the time. They even allowed a fan-made BIONICLE game onto Steam. They also allow the hosting of out of print LEGO video games.

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- Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Lets hope they never get bought out by Nintendo or similar…
  
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firebingo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They actually also hired the guy who made Manic Miners.

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stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Interestingly LEGO was patented, and that patent has recently expired.

If the company used a Trademark to protect the system they used, it would still be protected.

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K4mpfie@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Well they did shut down the Lego Universe reboot. Also Lego most certainly is batshit crazy when it comes to fighting other brick manufacturers and sellers. Just like any capitalist company they are afraid of losing ANY marketshare.

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