Just going to leave this here -
https://twitter.com/libretro/status/873534234392244224
https://twitter.com/libretro/status/873535148008099840
https://twitter.com/libretro/status/873539831703511040
To anybody that still decides to buy this, I hope for your sake that the aforementioned 'sound issues' they were having with their stuff back in March aren't still in the 'final product'. But oh well, who am I kidding. Pile 'em high cheap Rockchip ARM Linux SoCs and some cheap cash grabs is all these things are. They don't even have the decency of treating any of the opensource code they crib from well or in a fair way. They like to drink from the deep well of opensource code, but not contribute back what is demanded from them under those very same licenses, and they think they can just shop around for 'cheap hire' on their crappy inhouse emulators too. Heaven knows if they did decide to still use RetroArch on their Rockchip system or not, although that 'rewind feature' sure looks suspicious. I guess when you have your company base its operations in Vietnam, Singapore or any of these countries, abusing open source licensed code is seen as no big deal with limited fallout.
It gets really appalling to see companies continue to abuse and mistreat us like this while simultaneously making money off our work, and it might well have to come down to dual-licensing RetroArch so we can at least fall back on contract law violations the next time something like this happens again, because we've had just about enough of the 'hubris' of companies like this, the Hyperkins, etc. We are tired of the bullshit games these guys keep playing where they pretend to the public on one hand they are creating 'awesome tech', then in reality it's just a cheap $10 Rockchip ARM Linux board with some frontloaded emulators that everybody and their dog has already used donkey's ages ago. It's disgusting, it's fraudulent, it's parasitic, and it sucks. We have put years of our work into our own software, and for what? To make some shady entrepreneurial 'retro-themed' companies some easy money? Sure looks like it.
We have been shopped around like this twice now this year. In each and every single one of these cases, these guys contact us, not the other way around. We never solicit anybody. They use up our time with 'Skype calls' and all sorts of crap which I am just not going to bother with anymore to be honest with you. Once we were contacted by Gogame (a Sega subsidiary), after that this one (Atgames). I think the two are allied too, the previous guy kept sending e-mails to us about how he was ordering some of these Atgames products and how he'd like to use RetroArch on it, etc. That 'funny guy' also thought that I would willingly give up my rights to RetroArch by relicensing it as MIT, so that his companies could essentially create a closed source fork, not give any changes back and just pretend like they wrote it all. It's a really, really disgusting industry out there. Good thing I'm not stupid like that. Also worth noting - for months that went into a single demo for one of these companies, we never received so much as a single cent.
The only responsibility I have at this point are to our users, the ones funding us on Patreon. Those will receive all our undeserved time and attention, these companies can go take a hike unless they start making it worth their while. And if they decide to still use RA anyway while no permission is granted and the license stipulations aren't followed, we could always fall back on this -
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/0...ns-explains-that-gpl-is-a-contract-court-case
Corporate welfare is about to stop guys, at least as far as our project is concerned. We are well and duly fed up of the abuse.