In the coming reality where only ventures to extend hardware's usefulness support software development, programmers mostly fulfill roles as "hired guns" like accountants in the days of yester-era so then, seeking to join with Amazon and Microsoft and Google et cet in tasting their SaaSS intoxicated open source future, probably for a first in games history distributed macro-economically invested source code under a mutual promise not to sue license and without NDA. This means from the beginning, there was never any enforceable restriction not to reveal the source code. They marketed their support as hired guns, and sold their code to amazon to release as open source which amazon then co-opt'ed into their SaaSS fetish and initiated a complete rebranding effort unwittingly betraying Crytek. The games company which originally tipped the spear of Crytek's marketing themselves as hired guns, now also betrayed them by embracing amazon's rebranding effort. Crytek dreamed a future where they could customize free as in freedom software to suit whims specified by whatever company offered enough fiat to purchase the respected "hired guns": Crytek. Feeling the bitterness of betrayal they commence an inactionable lawsuit against who supported them the most and where the betrayal stings the most: their hope and their demise, their intimate friend Star Citizen.

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Obviously, this is a mixture of known fact and tongue-and-cheek inferences, which could be true. In case your not well 'versed' on what's happening, all facts mixed in the muddle authoritative sources should be trace-able through these links:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+citizen+leonard+french https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/star-citizen-re-built-in-amazons-lumber...