Yes, the main (and only) reason why atmosphere doesn't bundle the patches is because their main use is piracy. Same for XCI etc.
One can argument that they can be used for other uses, like launching legit backups and all. But try to see things from scires and others' side: They are devs working on legal grey areas. Nintendo is fierce fighting piracy, and puts a great effort onto it. Would you risk your own career (and possibly worse than that) to have a piracy friendly OS?
I mean, if you can't put yourself in the shoes of scires and others, then think of this: It's undeniable that atmosphere is the driving force of the scene. This is no attack to other OS's, please refrain from "X is better than Y comments. But, if you're ninty and you had an opportunity to take down such pillar like scires, do you think they would think twice? If they didn't already, is because he's been careful enough to not go to far.
So for us, wether using atmosphere or any other CFW, we should be thankful that atmo is avoiding all piracy. It's much better to waste a minute or two replacing sigpatches once a while, than having the motor of the scene being taken down.
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Regarding going around the XCI in the sept way, probably no one could find a way to do that without breaking ninty's copyrights. There are a lot of devs in the scene. If for example Rei, who is a little less conservative in this matter, doesn't want to give a take on XCI, is certainly not for lack of knowledge / ability. It's because there's just too much heat around XCI, and TX can go around that because they abide to different rules.
Needless to say, this is all just my opinion.
One can argument that they can be used for other uses, like launching legit backups and all. But try to see things from scires and others' side: They are devs working on legal grey areas. Nintendo is fierce fighting piracy, and puts a great effort onto it. Would you risk your own career (and possibly worse than that) to have a piracy friendly OS?
I mean, if you can't put yourself in the shoes of scires and others, then think of this: It's undeniable that atmosphere is the driving force of the scene. This is no attack to other OS's, please refrain from "X is better than Y comments. But, if you're ninty and you had an opportunity to take down such pillar like scires, do you think they would think twice? If they didn't already, is because he's been careful enough to not go to far.
So for us, wether using atmosphere or any other CFW, we should be thankful that atmo is avoiding all piracy. It's much better to waste a minute or two replacing sigpatches once a while, than having the motor of the scene being taken down.
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Regarding going around the XCI in the sept way, probably no one could find a way to do that without breaking ninty's copyrights. There are a lot of devs in the scene. If for example Rei, who is a little less conservative in this matter, doesn't want to give a take on XCI, is certainly not for lack of knowledge / ability. It's because there's just too much heat around XCI, and TX can go around that because they abide to different rules.
Needless to say, this is all just my opinion.
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