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    8 months ago

    And the subsequent C&Ds/lawsuits to the idiots who are “forking” the tainted codebase will do an even better job of explaining “you fuck with Nintendo and we will literally own you for the rest of your life”

    That also assumes the various projects have competent developers (unlikely since anyone with the technical ability knows why you don’t touch this code) and isn’t just a way to rush in some crypto miners and spyware to people who are mad they can’t have yuzu.

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      8 months ago

      What I don’t understand is why developers ever put their names to projects like this. Create the project and distribute it via peer to peer

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        Because this is generally hundreds, if not thousands, of years hours of their life.

        Part of it is wanting to get some degree of recognition for that. Part of it is that this is very much part of their portfolio for future jobs searches.