If they're asleep, why don't they log out? Like a normal person?
With IRC it is a very common to see users stay connected to a channel even when they are not around. Call it crazy all you want but its not really going to sway many people. Thats just how IRC is.
You can get banned for posting #wikipeida logs on the web? Now I understand both the pro-logging side of this issue and why so many people are starting to get fed up with wikipeida.
"How many times has someone come into a linux channel asking for help when the same question was answered 5 minutes earlier."
If that question is asked as frequently as you make it seem to be, the person asking it could have found the answer with a websearch. The fact that they didn't search the web tells you that they certainly won't use an irc search engine first either.
"Freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities" freenode
I think that you misinterpreted what you quoted, "FOSS network" means the network itself exists for discussing FOSS projects, not that the ircd is the largest free ircd.
>Frankly, I'm glad you don't work for us.
Yeah, who wants someone that wants to make sure that they are using code they are allowed to? Or do you just want to put GPL code in your products and hope none of the developers ever say anything about it?
>The fact that you would consider "rewriting" code that works well just because it was written by someone external to your company doesn't speak well for your sense of business priorities or usage of time.
Thats not the only reason, you seem to have left out the part where he was worried about the legal ramifications the company might face.
It would be silly to assume that they don't, as I know even private wow servers have bot/hack detection built into the server. The problem for Blizzard is that bot designers have been trying to make their in game actions seem as realistic as possible. When dealing with a realistic bot the only way Blizzard can detect it is with software on the client side.
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If they're asleep, why don't they log out? Like a normal person?
With IRC it is a very common to see users stay connected to a channel even when they are not around. Call it crazy all you want but its not really going to sway many people. Thats just how IRC is.
You can get banned for posting #wikipeida logs on the web? Now I understand both the pro-logging side of this issue and why so many people are starting to get fed up with wikipeida.
"How many times has someone come into a linux channel asking for help when the same question was answered 5 minutes earlier."
If that question is asked as frequently as you make it seem to be, the person asking it could have found the answer with a websearch. The fact that they didn't search the web tells you that they certainly won't use an irc search engine first either.
"Freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities" freenode
I think that you misinterpreted what you quoted, "FOSS network" means the network itself exists for discussing FOSS projects, not that the ircd is the largest free ircd.
>Frankly, I'm glad you don't work for us. Yeah, who wants someone that wants to make sure that they are using code they are allowed to? Or do you just want to put GPL code in your products and hope none of the developers ever say anything about it? >The fact that you would consider "rewriting" code that works well just because it was written by someone external to your company doesn't speak well for your sense of business priorities or usage of time. Thats not the only reason, you seem to have left out the part where he was worried about the legal ramifications the company might face.
It would be silly to assume that they don't, as I know even private wow servers have bot/hack detection built into the server. The problem for Blizzard is that bot designers have been trying to make their in game actions seem as realistic as possible. When dealing with a realistic bot the only way Blizzard can detect it is with software on the client side.
I've even seen people get 3 or 4 people on laptops in the same room playing the same table.