Dictionary definitions don't hold weight in the real world like that. You call it a bribe, people call it business.
If you want to go that route though, then okay sure let's say it's a 'bribe', and that's exactly how the world works.
It's illegal, so what? Their whole damn product is illegal and Nintendo even pointed out TX on their anti-piracy website. The key is whether TX can do illegal stuff, make a profit and get away with it, because there's no way to enforce the law when they steal licenses for unauthorized purposes. People get unhappy because their capitaism damages the community as a whole, but they don't care about people's feelings, only about making things that work and profiting from it.
The word 'illegal' is being abused for 'I don't like people doing this so I'm using this term to take the moral high ground' but 'it's okay for me to hack and mod my switch even though Nintendo doesn't like it'. Come on.
there is a huge difference between fucking a entire homebrew community, and screwing Nintendo over.
Apparently according to you, there is only black and white and no shades of grey.
Messing with Nintendo's software is fine. Why? Because the amount of people who hack their console is tiny compared to those who don't. That is my reasoning.
But I care about communities. I care about fanbases. I care about the products that are put out in this world. If there is a good product, I'll buy it.
If this 'business' deal went through. It would be a giant fuck you to a entire homebrew community. Stunting growth and privatizing a lot of homebrew until someone else created open gl support. Just because some corperation decided to say:
"Hey we are loosing revelancy so let's create a business deal as a big fuck you to the homebrew community that is our base for cfw. It's a WONDERFUL IDEA."
Because keep in mind that a lot of Tx's code is from the community. So it's a great idea to shit on your origin.
I know when I mod my console, I don't intend on using the mods I have to be a fucking douche bag to the community, I have no intentions on cheating or ruining another experience unless it's offline. But this "Business" deal would ruin hundreds of people's experiences in the homebrew community and give a retarded advantage to a company who shouldn't run a homebrew community. And doesn't deserve any fucking respect in my eyes. And it's the people who blindly buy their product without looking into things, without even second guessing what they are doing pisses me off.
I'm a firm believer in vote with your dollar. And supporting a shitty product is not something I plan on doing.
Now this wouldn't be a problem if companies did own homebrew communities often in the past.
But they rarely ever do
and even when there is a company involved allowing homebrew such as the ds with flashcards. No one flashcard maker thought: Let's get some more cash out of people and take something that people are expecting that is being made from the community and force it into our product and then shit on that community by taking it away from everyone else. And making sure the creator doesn't release it to the public.
It may be true that home brewing a device is just as illegal as a company who violates licences. But one of them isn't giving cash to a shitty product. And that is what makes the decision for me. If I'm going to do something I shouldn't, then mitigated the impact as much as possible.
Now let's talk about bribes again. Since you want to talk the colloquial version, I'm sorry to say but where I live, a bribe is usually against the peoples wishes and or illegal. Which is pretty close to that dictionary definition. But if you insist on using the colloquial version, then a 'business' deal could mean the same as a bribe.
