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Hacking UInjectForge (UIF) : Wii U injector for Windows, Linux, macOS, and mobile, with a free demo

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CMDreamer said:
You haven't been around enough time to understand this.


Who said so?
Reading comprehension is a must on a text based community.


Once again, who said so?
Improve your reading comprehension, and then come back to try again.
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No point in arguing with them. It's just feeding the troll. They're just trying to get a rise out of us through intentional misdirection.
 
To play devil's advocate:

When releasing any open-sourced code, you are inherently allowing and encouraging that software to not only be copied, but to be copied and sold. It's literally in the definition. When Carmack made Quake open-source, anyone could make software with that source and sell it. Y'know, Valve never needed permission from Id to make Half-Life. Even if Zesty hadn't made the tool from scratch, even if half the code had been made by others before, so what? The rules don't change just because you're a wagie and not a AAA developer. If you don't want this to happen to your code, then don't fucking make it open-source.

Furthermore, the entire point of the Homebrew and Emulation community is not only are such practices legal, but they are also legal to sell as genuine competition. Bleem was famously paid software in 2001 and set a legal precedent for such, and that's always been cited as definitive proof that emulation and homebrew wasn't just some underground scene for pirates but was actually a big deal and deserved respect. But now, the community sees themselves like punks, only playing in garages and small venues, never allowed to make a commercially successful album, lest you be called a "sellout". They would never approve of Bleem now, and that makes me sad.

I would maybe see a point in the controversy if the program was buggy or was priced at something obscene like $20. But $5? Really? That's greedy? Do you have any idea how small an amount that is these days? $5 won't even buy you a big mac.
 
BlazeHeatnix said:
But now, the community sees themselves like punks, only playing in garages and small venues, never allowed to make a commercially successful album, lest you be called a "sellout". They would never approve of Bleem now, and that makes me sad.
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Yeah, time marches on, things change. A lot more people in the community have developed more anarcho-socialist and anti-commerce views, and honestly with how shitty online commercial practices of selling software has become I don't blame them.

Bleem came into a world where the idea of Shareware and FOSS, while it did exist, was essentially unheard of by everyday people, most people were conditioned early on that software was something to buy, and if you weren't buying it, that was wrong. That has changed and since we have a more widespread understanding of free software, both as a lack of cost but also open for collaboration and remixing. I understand exactly why people would hate Bleem if it came out these days and they fucking should.

It was a different world with different rules back then, and the Homebrew scene wasn't what it is now, and in many ways that's a good thing.
 
Dragon91Nippon said:
Yeah, time marches on, things change. A lot more people in the community have developed more anarcho-socialist and anti-commerce views, and honestly with how shitty online commercial practices of selling software has become I don't blame them.

Bleem came into a world where the idea of Shareware and FOSS, while it did exist, was essentially unheard of by everyday people, most people were conditioned early on that software was something to buy, and if you weren't buying it, that was wrong. That has changed and since we have a more widespread understanding of free software, both as a lack of cost but also open for collaboration and remixing. I understand exactly why people would hate Bleem if it came out these days and they fucking should.

It was a different world with different rules back then, and the Homebrew scene wasn't what it is now, and in many ways that's a good thing.
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The appeal of the open-source initiative when it began was to allow independent software developers to utilize publically available, free to sell code, without having to write everything from scratch. This in turn allowed for more diversity in the software market with more creators that can make more software, faster, and better. It was intended to create and assist small businesses.

Now, your edgy wannabe-Marxist "down with the system" teenager mindset has effectively created a massive gap in the software space where you're either a corporation getting buddy-buddy with Big Tech, or someone in their basement making niche free software for niche hobbies funded by their wage slavery. Nobody in this community is ever allowed to use what's available to them to escape the rat race, ever, unless they're one of the brilliant, lucky one-in-a-million who write purely original software that lights the world on fire.

And you know what resulted from that? You know what devs turned to when they got sick and tired of this bullshit punk rock standard? Vibe coding. And it's fucking working.
 
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