ah, its fine - I love to reason
at least if there is some time to kill and its something we didn't have yet. Also it's not that I don't understand the frustration - I hate to not release too.. still I hate the other previously explained consequences more; much more.
I'm not on 4.5, so no kernel mode hack for me, but it's still rather disappointing to see homebrew being held back by hackers. Granted, there's a lot of people out there who want it for piracy, but I have a hard time believing that's what stops hacks being released. In fact, I wouldn't at all be surprised if there was some collaboration between #3dsdev regulars and the Gateway team. Don't get me wrong, by no means do I feel "entitled". It's yours, you did it, what you do with it is up to you. It's just that the hacking communities used to be sharing communities where a hack was developed and released despite the obvious consequences, and it's sad to see how we've moved away from that mindset. Let's not forget that you were able to do what you did thanks to the sharing of others, and them thanks to the sharing of others before them.
iOS hacking managed to keep that sharing mindset. Those guys work hard to release a public jailbreak for every iOS version released, and nobody ever posts a video and then says "by the way, we're not releasing because we don't want people using installous/appcake/that other chinese pirating app". And the figures aren't likely that much different: the ratio of pirates to homebrew users is still going to be extremely high―for what it's worth, I don't know anybody who pays for apps. Then you have people like bushing and marcan that are members of the iPhone dev team happy enough to blow iOS wide open for pirates but suddenly their moral compass points in a different direction or they say they can't be bothered when they gain access to a games console. And don't get me wrong here either, it's difficult not to have a lot of respect for them especially with everything they
have released. But I think that's part of the problem: other developers/hackers respect them too, so then everyone adopts the same philosophy, despite many of them being involved with piracy in the past and likely even having illegally downloaded material on their systems at this very minute.
The Geohot/fail0verflow lawsuit is another excuse I take exception with. Geohot had a massive ego, for him the world had to know that he was the one to blow the PS3 wide open (even though it was fail0verflow who did all the legwork). But what if he'd taken a train to the nearest city, sat in a McDonalds restaurant, registered an anonymous email address and an anonymous account on a PS3 hacking forum and uploaded all the stuff without revealing a single thing about himself?
It's such a shame, it seems like we could do a lot with the 3DS. 3D homebrew, 3D emulators, system tweaks, etc. There's always going to be a lot of pirates. Even I would be more selective about which games I purchased. But, alas, every time it seems like we're close, someone else tells us that what we're seeing will never see the light of day outside the elit
iste hacking circles.
lightenup got job offers? for what?
Well, there's more than a few DS flashcard manufacturers out there just itching to get a slice of Gateway's pie. I seriously doubt anyone's going to pay them to write not-for-profit 3DS homebrew.