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They tried to stall the development of an open source GBA emulator. What's constructive about that? Where's the corporation's empathy?

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We don't really know what happened here, because as far as I can tell the OP didn't actually engage with anyone to understand what was happening. It seems most likely that the company needed to focus more on one project than another for a little while. That is not the same as stalling something intentionally. It's hard for the company to have empathy if the person didn't elect to communicate their thoughts and feelings.

> We don't really know what happened here

First they said it wasn't going to impact the author's open source work.

Then they started talking about delaying mGBA development until the product was released.

Then they started talking about delaying mGBA development until many months after the product was released.

Terms can change during negotiations, it's not like they changed the terms after an arrangement was agreed to.

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