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[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

To be fair, the Yuzu team weren't exactly running a moneyless operation, like most emulators do. That's what's being sued over here

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I’m confused now. What is a “reader app”?

This is some of Apple's own terminology. It applies to any application who's main purpose is to serve up audial, visual or text-based media.

Apple allows these apps to access existing accounts via apps but not create new ones.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Conversely, not being on a platform with a very considerable amount of their current userbase could cost them massive amounts of subscribers, and possibly allow competitors to take their place.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There is no precedent. The case never made it to court.

[–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The GTA leakers problem is that he would use any sort of leniency he could to initiate further attacks. The dude performed an attack while already in police custody,

[–] 520@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In poorer countries, sure.

In most 1st world countries, using pirated software is basically giving groups like FAST a licence to fuck you out of business.

[–] 520@kbin.social 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would say that LibreOffice could potentially be more important than just a competitor to Google/MS.

With Google's offering being cloud based and MS pushing the same way, in 10 years LO could be the main office suite that's fully available offline.

[–] 520@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

patreon income surged when tears of the kingdom came out, and maybe that is enough to say that they enable pirates and thus should cease all operations.

Problem is, what part of that is Yuzu's fault? They themselves stressed not to go down the piracy route.

[–] 520@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Ripping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.

[–] 520@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So what purpose does an emulator server legally speaking?

They provide compatibility for software made to run on one platform to work on another.

Providing compatibility is one of the most protected use cases of reverse engineering in US law.

And I don’t think anyone uses their car for accidents.

Lots of terrorist groups do.

[–] 520@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah yes, everyone who disagrees is a shill. How productive.

The funny thing is, the people in the comments have done a much better job than you at providing actual arguments as to why Wayland isn't great.

But here's the thing about Wayland: it can and will get better. Unlike X11, the codebase of the various Wayland compositors isn't 30 years of hack after hack making it an unmaintainable mess.

If we want to make desktop experiences that rival Windows and MacOS, including future versions, we have to make these kinds of changes. If we want to adapt to changing computing landscapes, we have to make these changes.

Wayland isn't perfect but the Linux desktop world is in a much better place with it than without it.

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