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The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/

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[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know, if I put out GPL software, I wouldn't give a fuck if it got used to fuck over Nintendo without following all the GPL nonsense. They took the legal risk of going up against Nintendo, I sure as hell didn't take any risk writing code. Them profiting a bit isn't the end of the world. No one was going to make any money staying within legal limits anyway, nothing was "stolen".

Edit: Just to be clear, all I know about Bowser is based on the parent comment. Maybe he's a bigger POS than the example given but, from that, doesn't seem like a major villain.

[-] CCL@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 1 year ago

If that's the case you probably wouldn't release GPL software, you'd find a more permissive license, perhaps apache?

[-] dsemy@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago

SX OS has anti-piracy measures in place which literally brick your switch.

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