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Gary Bowser is out of jail after being sued by Nintendo and would be an interesting AMA here (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.

Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.

Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed. SOG did a video on him a few months ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say no sympathy.

Gary suffers from Lymphedema in his left leg, starting just below the kneecap down to the ankle.

Lymphoedema is pretty awful, I feel bad for anyone living with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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