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It's only immoral, or however you want to label it, if someone doesn't follow the rules under which a developer releases his/her software. CUPS is another example, where Apple used the technology until they actually just hired the main developer, etc. Techspansion's VisualHub was an excellent example - an awesome, actually useful front end to ffmpeg. You can't modify the source, but you can link to it and build a shell around it.
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When you start using "listen Bannister" and "open source the damn thing," those aren't things you could say to someone's face without sounding like a jerk.īut really, the GPL contains explicit allowances for people that want to sell paid software that includes open source components. I dunno dude, that's pretty jerk-ish to me. Competition is healthy, and breeds better software for us all - View image here: -īannister can lick my sweaty.
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I'm always happy to help out those such as JCWeinberg who attempt to build completely free alternatives to my work. Unfortunately for the original poster both happen to be shareware too, but maybe someone will come up with a free equivalent at some stage. One final point joypad support can easily be replicated in my projects (or indeed any others) by means of USB Overdrive or Gamepad Companion. Regardless as to what I may believe, the most important fact is that the original authors of all these emulators are well aware of what I do, and they have told me that they do not have any difficulties with my policy. My perspective is that Emulator Enhancer is no different.
To use a slightly silly comparison (apologies in advance), a well known company called Apple sells its commercial graphical front end to an open source operating system. I greatly admire the many people willing to give their software away completely free I'm afraid that my altruistic tendencies have been somewhat flattened by the weight of a substantial mortgage. However, my perspective is that this program is one hundred percent my work, therefore leaving me entirely within my rights to charge money for it. It is absolutely true that this module could not exist without the emulator projects that lie beneath it, and thus it can indeed be argued that I'm making money off the work of others.
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I give away all bar one of my emulator ports free of charge, and I'd love to make the last one free also but the original author will not allow me to do so.įor those not familiar with my work, I sell an expansion module called Emulator Enhancer which augments these ports with a number of features - chiefly full screen mode, joypad support, and (crap) network play. I respect your point of view, but I'm afraid I don't agree with it.
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