Re: Open Source Considerations (was: Re: Any 6502 devs for hire?)

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 08:39:19 -0500
Message-ID: <d232ce8c-9b28-d44e-a483-9aaa5f63e806_at_jbrain.com>
I realize this strays from our technical discussions, but I do feel the 
inability to share details for technical discussion due to these 
concerns is lamentable.  And yes, to groepaz' point, anyone who shares 
stuff publicly should know it will be copied and abused.  I will counter 
that I should still be able to complain about it.  Not from the "Hey, 
you used my design in a way I did not intend" perspective, but from the 
"this will just encourage people to not share, and that sucks".

And yes, I am angry on behalf of the VICE devs, who openly shared all 
the code (which is often extremely helpful in designing hardware or 
understanding how the systems work) and THEC64, THEVIC20, etc. people 
used it without offering anything to the community that spent so much 
time on it.

Jim
Received on 2022-05-06 16:02:43

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