From: Groepaz <gr...@gm...> - 2004-04-13 22:35:09
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On Monday 12 April 2004 20:51, Michael Steil wrote: > > It'd be nice if the source were available, but even the dynamically > > linked version works for me, which is a little surprising given how > > ancient the libraries on the box I'm serving it from are. > > Costis fears that the source will be abused for the creation of > programs that support piracy. I can understand that. costis is just a control freak, nothing more nothing less :=P there really is no reason to not release source, other than wanting to keep it to yourself (which is everyones fair right ofcourse, i'm not a big friend of releasing source either, for several reasons). they are already pirating games, and they are already cheating pso - releasing the code wouldnt change anything. (and like someone said before, even a medioucre skilled hacker can reverse the crap he'd need from the released exe file - even if he'd need to bootstrap his own stuff using the already encoded packets. however this is neither needed to pirate stuff nor to cheat pso. pirate tools just use the existing loader binaries, and pso can be cheated more easily by editing save games.). whatever, my offer to supply our own stuff to someone who is skilled in both networking and gamecube coding so he can develop it into a really useable application still stands. oh well, gpz |