[sabizmil]

He seems to have a perspective that his 'legacy' is under attack and that the derivatives of his work are ruining his reputation. To me it comes across as very naive to think that you can control your 'legacy' by making demands to people who use work that was placed in the public domain.

The mobile devs were fully willing to make the changes he wanted (even going as far as to offer him money, which he refused), but when the changes didn't actually make a difference and a mistake was made (their release in China was missing the changes and he was still being asked by fans about the mobile port) he doubled-down on the claims of fraud and eventually submitted take-down requests through Apple and Google.

I don't think there is a path towards his satisfaction until he understands the implications of placing work in the public domain.

[Dayshine]

Following this rabbit-hole a little further: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/issues/16#issuecommen...

>Everyone out there in the world is a free person and can do whatever they want. I cannot stop them, even if I wanted to, and with this notice, I have promised not to even TRY to stop them.

A year ago he seemed perfectly aware that he was giving away his control over his legacy. I wonder what changed since then...

[iron0013]

In the author's own words " This is the first time that an adaptation of my work has become commercially successful, and possibly more successful than the original (#1 paid app in Japan a few months ago, for example). Now suddenly, the details matter." That's a pretty damn cynical thing for him to say! "Do whatever you want with it, unless you start making money in which case I want it!"