So subscribing to your statements, one would only be left to say that their just ordinary programmers that did a bad thing that the company should just punish them rather than seek out ways of possibly turning this into something more benficial, for itself, or both party's mentioned?
And we're not talking about a company that people go to for experience. Their not standing in the software isle looking at a copy of Starcraft going 'Wow, they've been around for 20 years! This game has got to be cool!' No, their looking at how the game looks (Creativity/Design), what other people have said about the game (Creativity/Marketing), and if it's going to run on their machine at home (Knowledge/Experience).
The Knowledge, Experience, and Skill of employees are always essential to the foundation of a company. Everything else, Most of all Creativity, Is what propels a company like Blizzard. And to simply sit back and say 'They shouldn't concider hiring them because they lack the experience.' is kind of a shallow way to look at it. They wrote a program (Skill/Knowledge) that is a clone of battle.net's abilities (Creativity if not Imaginative as well), that they released to the public and maintained it (Knowledge/Experience/Ability).
So, hopefully you see, my arguement isn't in defense of offering 'simpletons' a chance, cause even though they may have wrote a program that lets upto eight people on a LAN have a game against each other, not many people that I know would not be imaginative or creative enough to develop that simple program for the purpose bnetd serve(s/d).
Well, given that battle.net appears to be mostly comprised of win-based boxes, and bnetd is intended for *nix based boxes, that's one advantage for Blizzard. People who know enough about how battle.net works to be able to port/clone it to a new type of environment have got to hold some sort of value to a company that no doubt is mindful of itself and has taken steps lately, even prior to this issue, to improve it's services.
Also take into account that this bnetd got popular realitively quick, granted, it allowed those w/ illegal copies of blizzard games the ability to play online, but they also developed something that even attracted those w/ legal copies. Weither it is do in fact that there was more people on there, people supporting open source, less lag, or all of the above, they obviously were doing something on a level that was attracting people to participate, as well as the attention of the company that now seeks to shut it down.
Not quite sure at this given time how I could break it down more towards a bottom line than this: those responsable for bnetd appear to have ideas and skills, as well as knowledge, that I think blizzard should take note of before writing them off as simple "pee-on's" and sueing the pants off them.
Hold a meeting or conference with the authors of Bnetd, then instead of suing the pants off them, hire them, have them help improve the original Battle.net services. It's kind of like ISP's and large companies hiring hackerz, sorry, Security Specialists to help develop stronger and more secure networks and communications, why not let this fall under that same umbrella? Win-Win situation. Battle.net can make a deal that gives these guys rad jobs, and they get improved service.
But, seeing as most companies would rather slam the cuffs on the little man rather than display gestures of good will, I doubt such a happy ending will even come into the minds of Blizzard. But, here's one for hoping.
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So subscribing to your statements, one would only be left to say that their just ordinary programmers that did a bad thing that the company should just punish them rather than seek out ways of possibly turning this into something more benficial, for itself, or both party's mentioned? And we're not talking about a company that people go to for experience. Their not standing in the software isle looking at a copy of Starcraft going 'Wow, they've been around for 20 years! This game has got to be cool!' No, their looking at how the game looks (Creativity/Design), what other people have said about the game (Creativity/Marketing), and if it's going to run on their machine at home (Knowledge/Experience).
The Knowledge, Experience, and Skill of employees are always essential to the foundation of a company. Everything else, Most of all Creativity, Is what propels a company like Blizzard. And to simply sit back and say 'They shouldn't concider hiring them because they lack the experience.' is kind of a shallow way to look at it. They wrote a program (Skill/Knowledge) that is a clone of battle.net's abilities (Creativity if not Imaginative as well), that they released to the public and maintained it (Knowledge/Experience/Ability). So, hopefully you see, my arguement isn't in defense of offering 'simpletons' a chance, cause even though they may have wrote a program that lets upto eight people on a LAN have a game against each other, not many people that I know would not be imaginative or creative enough to develop that simple program for the purpose bnetd serve(s/d).
Well, given that battle.net appears to be mostly comprised of win-based boxes, and bnetd is intended for *nix based boxes, that's one advantage for Blizzard. People who know enough about how battle.net works to be able to port/clone it to a new type of environment have got to hold some sort of value to a company that no doubt is mindful of itself and has taken steps lately, even prior to this issue, to improve it's services.
Also take into account that this bnetd got popular realitively quick, granted, it allowed those w/ illegal copies of blizzard games the ability to play online, but they also developed something that even attracted those w/ legal copies. Weither it is do in fact that there was more people on there, people supporting open source, less lag, or all of the above, they obviously were doing something on a level that was attracting people to participate, as well as the attention of the company that now seeks to shut it down.
Not quite sure at this given time how I could break it down more towards a bottom line than this: those responsable for bnetd appear to have ideas and skills, as well as knowledge, that I think blizzard should take note of before writing them off as simple "pee-on's" and sueing the pants off them.
Hold a meeting or conference with the authors of Bnetd, then instead of suing the pants off them, hire them, have them help improve the original Battle.net services. It's kind of like ISP's and large companies hiring hackerz, sorry, Security Specialists to help develop stronger and more secure networks and communications, why not let this fall under that same umbrella? Win-Win situation. Battle.net can make a deal that gives these guys rad jobs, and they get improved service.
But, seeing as most companies would rather slam the cuffs on the little man rather than display gestures of good will, I doubt such a happy ending will even come into the minds of Blizzard. But, here's one for hoping.