Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
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Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
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Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#2They're filing for ABC protection in California. Source: http://kotaku.com/5935767/onlive-filing-for-bankruptcy-new-c... Here's an explanation of what ABC is http://allmandlaw.com/bankruptcy/abc-vs-bankruptcy Looks like they're re-arranging OnLive into a new company http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2012/08/17/onlive...
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#3> Some of those employees may reportedly be hired back as the company transitions into a new iteration, which might be more focused on exercising its portfolio of streaming patents.
This doesn't sound good.
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#4Ah man- I played with OnLive a little bit and it seemed like a product that had so much potential to revolutionize the industry. Maybe it was ahead of its time?
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#5I liked the idea of OnLive. In fact since I've been travelling a lot over the past year I wanted to play some games that I couldn't (because my laptop sucks). The problem I found is that it is just too expensive to play the games I wanted. They cost the same amount as purchasing a physical copy. I couldn't justify that as it provides a degraded experience and I know when I come home I have a great computer I can play them on.
It's too bad they couldn't make it work since I the concept was pretty cool.
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#6> Some of those employees may reportedly be hired back as the company transitions into a new iteration, which might be more focused on exercising its portfolio of streaming patents. This doesn't sound good.
OnLive spent a ridiculous amount of time getting their technology to where it is today (9 years!), at which point it looks like they failed to license titles that anyone wanted to play. If there was a legitimate reason for the patent system it would be to protect all of their hard work. I'm hoping that "exercising" means licensing to other companies like Apple or Microsoft instead of just turning into a patent troll. It was pretty impressive how OnLive could stream real time graphics better from a datacenter to my TV than my laptop could over airplay, i.e. something that a lot of technologies could benefit from.
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#7> Some of those employees may reportedly be hired back as the company transitions into a new iteration, which might be more focused on exercising its portfolio of streaming patents. This doesn't sound good.
I think it would be great if they licensed their technology to a company that can leverage it. Fingers crossed that Apple does something with this.
This doesn't mean that they're becoming an evil patent troll.
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#8> Some of those employees may reportedly be hired back as the company transitions into a new iteration, which might be more focused on exercising its portfolio of streaming patents. This doesn't sound good.
OnLive spent a ridiculous amount of time getting their technology to where it is today (9 years!), at which point it looks like they failed to license titles that anyone wanted to play. If there was a legitimate reason for the patent system it would be to protect all of their hard work. I'm hoping that "exercising" means licensing to other companies like Apple or Microsoft instead of just turning into a patent troll.…
Software copyrights would cover whatever they may have invented just fine, there's no need for an overbroad patent system to shut down the entire idea of application streaming for the next 20 years.
Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#9Ah man- I played with OnLive a little bit and it seemed like a product that had so much potential to revolutionize the industry. Maybe it was ahead of its time?
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Re: Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear
#10Ah man- I played with OnLive a little bit and it seemed like a product that had so much potential to revolutionize the industry. Maybe it was ahead of its time?
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