[hiro]

Thanks for the clarification behind all this.

Wow that sucks Ubi threw Oleg under the bus. Part of being a publisher means they take responsibilities for (issues like legal stuff).

I can understand getting paid for something, but there has to be reason.

a) let microsoft make grumman stuff for free. But russian flight sim seems to be a better product and oh its selling like hotcakes, lets charge them b/c they can't get high powered lawyers like microsoft can.

b) for years model companies and previous game developers have been using stuff for free and now you're going to charge for something that's US govt and paid for by tax payers to line individual company pockets?

c) instead of paying teams of lawyers, it'd be better spent on R&D and bettering your company than nit picking legal stuff and losing focus on what the companies set out to do originally.

look at what greed has done to the US car companies for nickle and diming for their likeness of cars in models (now asking govt handouts b/c they develop crap, and the Japanese are kicking their bums in the marketplace because 50 years ago they didn't listen to Edward Deming).

or RIAA and MPAA trying to sue peer to peer networks / the internet and asking taxpayers to pay for damages via software piracy because they were too slow to jump on the internet marketing and mp3 boom. They've lost credibility by suing grandmas and mac users (no p2p for mac at the time), lost profits, and instead of making good music and paying musicians well, the only guys making money are the lawyers. One can attest to this by listening to radio and seeing how much junk songs are being played.

Ok its exaggerated and over simplified but its like the lady suing Mickey D's / Macdonalds for purchasing a hot hot cup of coffee, placing it in her lap THEN driving all over the place and spilling it so it scalded her pretty good for the fast food not putting warning labels on the cups. But jeez take some responsibility instead of working the system for a fast buck.


If this junk is kept up, trying to copyright 'history' it will simply force flight sim companies to do what sports games have doing for ages.


I remember NBA games . . . Instead of using Michael Jordan, and paying millions in royalties to him, Nike . . . they had a player Mitchell Gordan with no. 23 jersey, that looks like MJ, plays like him, and shoots / dunks like him.


Grumman TBF Avenger you will get Drumman FBT Revenger . . .

It'd be funny if they had to resort to leet speak to get around copyrighting.

Or briefings in BOB SOW. Today 7he Bth A* (The 8th AF is copyrighted) is targeting Br*men (Bremen is trademarked). Be prepared as the L*ftwaff3 ^f-1O9's will stop at nothing to . . ."


Skins will be called Er1ch Hartm*nn.bmp and Bvd 4nderson.bmp , because the names already taken (by lawyers).