Hacking Discussion Team Xecuter Attempted to Bribe RetroNX Developers

[Kioku]

I'm still waiting for the evidence of said bribe instead of just hearsay.

This.. Still waiting.. Zzzz

 

[thaikhoa]

Drama makes them more famous than ever. In this case, they've successfully attempted to get a free promotion.

 

[sj33]

This thread is spectacular, the lengths people will go to in order to defend TX are bizarre.

Licence violations aside (and that would be a huge deal given the history of other companies like retro-bit violating libretro licences and ripping off code), here we have a situation where TX wanted to arbitrarily restrict a piece of software to their hardware. Nobody would benefit from this, absolutely nobody. The scene would lose a huge amount and TX users would not necessarily gain anything they wouldn't have received anyway. Yet people are still trying to defend it.

Just for once, try to look past the fact that you paid for their software and look at the scene as a whole.

 

[Ericthegreat]

I got explicitly told to stop working on opensource projects.

They seem happy stealing anything they want, why not just take the $6000 and then fuck them over?

 

[mss1988]

My thoughts:

1. $6000 is really not much, a good dev like @m4xw could make much more than that if spent his time working overtime instead of working on this project.

2. I'm glad that there are still "unbribable" people. Open source projects like this are really priceless and I'm glad the author thinks the same.

3. Open source projects can't be just closed and made exclusive to some platform. It's more like stop of development (by some devs) and fork.

4. Come on guys, don't be racist, it doesn't matter where TX's is coming from. Imagine your life without things from China.

5. In my opinion SX OS doesn't really make sense anymore with all those great free and open surface CFWs and injectors. Not even XCI loader makes sense. Before start using any CFW go Airplane mode/block Nintendo servers. And as a bonus don't forget that SX contains brick code. As developer myself I know that things like that aren't the ones to play with. You can never be 100% sure if the code would not accidentally be triggered. Imagine what would happen if PC games go that direction. A game somehow detect that you didn't pay for it and it formats your HDD and mess up your BIOS

 

[omegasoul6]

Just for once, try to look past the fact that you paid for their software and look at the scene as a whole.

But muh $25!!

 

[Kioku]

This thread is spectacular, the lengths people will go to in order to defend TX are bizarre.

Licence violations aside (and that would be a huge deal given the history of other companies like retro-bit violating libretro licences and ripping off code), here we have a situation where TX wanted to arbitrarily restrict a piece of software to their hardware. Nobody would benefit from this, absolutely nobody. The scene would lose a huge amount and TX users would not necessarily gain anything they wouldn't have received anyway. Yet people are still trying to defend it.

Just for once, try to look past the fact that you paid for their software and look at the scene as a whole.

1. The scene is terrible.

2. I don't see TX defenders.

3. The scene is terrible. I can't say this enough.

 

[JoeBloggs777]

1. The scene is terrible.

2. I don't see TX defenders.

3. The scene is terrible. I can't say this enough.

I'll have a go, The Scene has always been about beating the competiton thats all that counts.

TX are pirates, what else do you expect ?. also is this the same person at TX who offered a job to Pragma to stop cracking SX OS

and no offense, I'm not interested in RetroNX, thou I'm sure there are a number who are, but i'll stick my neck out and say the majority of Switch users are not, they want the l8st Switch games

 

[Kioku]

I'll have a go, The Scene has always been about beating the competiton thats all that counts.

TX are pirates, what else do you expect ?. also is this the same person at TX who offered a job to Pragma to stop cracking SX OS

and no offense, I'm not interested in RetroNX, thou I'm sure there are a number who are, but i'll stick my neck out and say the majority of Switch users are not, they want the l8st Switch games

You'll have a go at what, though? :v

 

[Wolfy]

To all these people saying $6,000 isn't a lot....

Can you lend me 50 bucks? Lol

In the grand scheme of things during life, nah it's not that much. It's still a good chunk of change, but not something that'll keep you going for long, especially when the light at the end of the TX tunnel is closing in fast XD

Once you get a job, or even a good job, you'll be making that same money within a couple months.

 

[AutumnWolf]

1. The scene is terrible.

2. I don't see TX defenders.

3. The scene is terrible. I can't say this enough.

a TX defender liked your post

 

[lolboy]

This is called bribe? TX haters gonna keep trying.

 

[Kubas_inko]

They should focus first on fixing their buggy 2.0 os rather than wasting money bribing people.

They have to wait for open source comunity to release working builds first.

 

[radicalwookie]

@m4xw Keeps impressing me more and more

 

[Deleted-442439]

In the grand scheme of things during life, nah it's not that much. It's still a good chunk of change, but not something that'll keep you going for long, especially when the light at the end of the TX tunnel is closing in fast XD

Once you get a job, or even a good job, you'll be making that same money within a couple months.

In a few countries such as Norway 6k is a average montly wage you could make that with almost any job if you work full time.

M4 could be making double that a month over here in the right job.

 

[Hillage]

In a few countries such as Norway 6k is a average montly wage you could make that with almost any job if you work full time.

M4 could be making double that a month over here in the right job.

I need to move.....shit.

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[JoeBloggs777]

In a few countries such as Norway 6k is a average montly wage you could make that with almost any job if you work full time.

M4 could be making double that a month over here in the right job.

it sounds alot but cost of living in Norway is one of the highest in the world.

Cost of living in Norway is 57.60% higher than in United Kingdom

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Norway

 

[Insane]

I can only say: This thread does make me see the errors of my way! I get bribed every day to do some software work. It even sometimes involves modifying GPL code! And I don't even publish the changes. DANG!

/s

On further note: if working for a company, you personally are not required to publish GPL code changes. Also using GPL code in server software only is legal.

 

[RedHunter]

In before they raise the money hat and the guy accept it.

 

[sj33]

What does server software have to do with this? They wanted a version of Retroarch with arbitrary restrictions limiting it to their software. While this would not be illegal per say, it would be if they refused to release the source code as per GPL. And TX have a certain history there. And libretro have a history of companies stealing their source code and long battles against this.

The fact that m4xw would not be personally responsible for releasing the source code dodges the point. TX would be responsible, and it's fair to assume that they wouldn't do this.