As I see, the companies that bought license from bustabit are those who are active on bitcointalk and care about responses from bitcointalk users and about their reputation on this forum. Otherwise, no one cares about that.
That only companies that have licensed bustabit pay attention to their reputation here in the forum is of course not true, but I'm sure you didn't mean it that way
I partly meant that cause this is reality, some really buy their script to just appear good here and that's normal and personally I appreciate that at some point. I hate that nowadays some casinos that don't run crypto business and aren't in touch with bitcointalk, use bustabit code without paying them.
Our forum has quite some weight in the cryptogambling area. If you google for platforms you will quickly find posts and threads here. So accusations or a bad image will lead directly to the fact that potential customers will jump off immediately. So it is definitely worthwhile to be active for a platform here and to keep a positive image.
Yeah, it has weight and that's good. Because of this reason, a lot of users got funds that they deserved ( I mean scam accusations against some casinos, without them users' funds were just lost).
RHavar, you were original author of the Bustabit v1 code right? Did you ever consider trying to apply for a patent or any form of intellectual property?
That's a good question and I was really interested in that. Seems, his answer is following:
It was maybe a mistake, but bustabit never tried to control the game-concept (i.e. there's no patents or anything like that), just a copyright on the actual code that bustabit uses.