The Northrop Grumman Issue.

[Buster_Dee]

The hole NG argument is so foolish. A software facsimile can not possibly perform functions of real life, so how can it threaten or abuse anything. Now, if we created a complete dog that looked SOMETHING like a NG product, then I can see them being upset. I sometimes think they are oblivious to all their engineers who got their start making models. Sounds like free marketing to me.

If I dress up like a brownie, that doesn't make me one. If I claim I am, who can be so duped as to believe it. If it makes someone hungry for the real thing, you don't hear the baker complaining.

Well, most bakers....

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Buster_Dee

The hole NG argument is so foolish. A software facsimile can not possibly perform functions of real life, so how can it threaten or abuse anything. Now, if we created a complete dog that looked SOMETHING like a NG product, then I can see them being upset. I sometimes think they are oblivious to all their engineers who got their start making models. Sounds like free marketing to me.

If I dress up like a brownie, that doesn't make me one. If I claim I am, who can be so duped as to believe it. If it makes someone hungry for the real thing, you don't hear the baker complaining.

Well, most bakers....

Indeed it is foolish. Nobody said that the legal system plus corporate greed made any sense either. It's not even a matter of threatening their competitive place in the market... their whole thing is about the portrayal of stuff that they know own. Why not charge licensing fees to get some more cash... That's how they operate. Anything for the almighty dollar because that is good for shareholders.

[scott_fitz96]

To be honest, I'm completely baffled by the whole thing. There are already Grumman aircraft in-game... F4F and F6F namely... so why have they not been withdrawn or something in accordance with this "agreement"?

And then you have to wonder about all the other big aircraft manufacturers - Supermarine, Hawker, Avro, de Havilland, Messerschmitt, Focke-Wulf, Mitsubishi, Boeing, Consolidated, Lockheed - okay, most of them don't exist anymore. But one wonders why they haven't taken a similar approach to their aircraft being replicated in a computer game?

Now, either I'm a total noob and missed something, or I'm not quite understanding this issue... just my 2 cents worth.

Tally-ho,
Scott.

[csThor]

Originally Posted by scott_fitz96

To be honest, I'm completely baffled by the whole thing. There are already Grumman aircraft in-game... F4F and F6F namely... so why have they not been withdrawn or something in accordance with this "agreement"?

Because they've been "paid for".