The only company I could believe shutting down the DRM when they die is Valve's Steam, and I'm still fairly skeptical of that.
LGP has stated that everyone in the company is authorized to release patches disabling DRM if the company goes under...
All LGP employees have the authority to produce, on their own, and without the order of the company, such patches, should the company be unable to produce them or to request their production, on the event that LGP ceases trading.
It does allow for it to be taken apart by any registered data recovery services, and also allows them to keep it for 30 days instead of the 3 normal people get.
I'd like to see the evidence you have for sabatoge.
As another poster has already said, it could have been as simple as them fixing a bug in the windows ACPI table, but neglecting to update the code in the linux case.
--Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Well, at least if you scroll down on the w3schools page they come right out and tell you that the statistics are off because of their target demographics...
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Seeing as one of the projects mentioned with the most releases was in C#, is it lumping C,C++,C#, etc all under one label?
Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for a night.
Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Here you go google search was for "emule arstechnica", your google-fu is gone sir.
The only company I could believe shutting down the DRM when they die is Valve's Steam, and I'm still fairly skeptical of that.
LGP has stated that everyone in the company is authorized to release patches disabling DRM if the company goes under...
In the spirit of wikipedia, you could have at least included a citation
Don't forget accounting for human errors.
Ah, and Freecaft did change its name, it's around as Stratagus
bnetd's purpose wasn't to play hacked versions of the games, and they even tried to negotiate with Blizzard for a method of verifying the codes iirc.
What most people used it for was hosting tournaments at LAN parties, and people still can using the bnetd-derived PvPGN.
Traitor!
October 21st is not later this month over here...
They do allow data recovery companies to disassemble the drive...
It does allow for it to be taken apart by any registered data recovery services, and also allows them to keep it for 30 days instead of the 3 normal people get.
This which is linked to from here seems to say something...
Or step 5 includes enough information to discover your identity...
Sounds pretty similar to pirate insult sword fighting...
It may have been Linux Game Publishing you were thinking about? They had that in the response to complaints about the DRM they introduced in Sacred...
Great A'tuin?
A "standard base"... I think you may be on to something there.
I'd like to see the evidence you have for sabatoge.
As another poster has already said, it could have been as simple as them fixing a bug in the windows ACPI table, but neglecting to update the code in the linux case.
--Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Well, the PS2 has them, but only for playing DVDs. It has no affect on games afaik.
Roots taste like beer, everyone knows that...
graphics card is a GeForce Go 6800...
I'm on a dual-core 4200+ AMD64 I bought April '06, it has no problems playing 1080p video with mplayer if I play from internal storage...
Well, at least if you scroll down on the w3schools page they come right out and tell you that the statistics are off because of their target demographics...
To clarify, it was with versions above 4, 4 itself was just fine.