Gateway did all the effort for discovering and releasing the kernel exploits, bootrom keys, and so on. CFW's only exist because of Gateway.
You say it is wasting money, but in reality it was investing in the 3DS scene.
No, at this point it is wasting money if you choose to purchase a flash card when the same results of a flash card can now be achieved without a flashcard thanks to cfws. You can now invest in the 3DS scene without giving money to a company that practices shady behavior that attacks the wrong party in this whole stupid scenario.
Listen, I love what the likes of Gateway has done for the community as a whole, you're right, we likely wouldn't have CFWs if it weren't for Gateway, but that doesn't mean I should blindly support Gateway indefinitely, especially when their product is now (I hate to say it) obsolete and they don't adjust their practices in the slightest. As I've explained, some people may be ok with what they do, but not me, I could never finance that company, not for trying to bully customers into getting their product. My 3DS is special to me, I'd be super pissed if someone bricked it, and I can tell you that the last thing I'd do after all the dust was settled and I had a new product would be to then buy one of those products that was directly responsible for me having to get a new system to begin with. The logic to that is so baffling I just can't get past it.
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So let me get this straight if i'm an ammo manufacturer and I sell explosive shotgun rounds specially made for a very specific pistol and tell people using my ammo DON'T PUT THIS AMMO INTO A DIFFERENT GUN IT WILL EXPLODE WHEN YOU FIRE IT! and some jackass tries to fire the ammo from a .45 and the gun explodes the ammo manufacturer is at fault?
See the thing is, you don't tell everyone in the real life scenario, only on your site selling your specific gun. If the consumer goes to another gun seller's website (and never visited the legit gun store's site) that nowhere once makes mention of the fact that you're using the wrong ammo with their product out of tha box, most all would agree that blame shouldn't be placed on the consumer who had a gun misfire despite no warning label actually being on the box, instead all blame should be placed on that gun seller that never once mentioned that their ammo isn't meant for their guns. Gateway shouldn't be attacking the consumer, they should be attacking the companies making the cards. That's all the logic that there is to this, and it makes perfect sense.
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