I didn't care for Wind Waker because 1) I still don't know if that's actually Link I'm playing [from what I could remember, it's just a kid who looks like him, based on a yearly tradition], and 2) Hyrule went all New Orleans on itself and I spent most of my time sailing instead of fighting or dungeon-spelunkeling. I just can't bring myself to consider it a canonical Zelda game.
What's to stop you from using an older version of the GPL to bypass this retaliation clause? Or are updates to the GPL retro-active to older licenses even if older GPL licenses don't have those changes reflected in their texts?
For example, the SystemRestoreCD is a Linux distribution, but it doesn't actually have Linux in its name. Does this still apply, however, since the kernel in that distro still makes mention to "Linux" when you use it?
If so, can you just do a find-and-replace on "Linux" changing it to something completely different on the entire source code, re-compile, and it would still be legal as long as you still adhere to the GNU license?
Even though Nintendo was by no means the first, I wouldn't exclude it from being in a, er, "roots" category. Doesn't Nintendo's soundchip stand a rightful place alongside the Commodore 64's SID for being the precursor to chiptune aesthetics by today's chiptune composers? Doesn't Nintendo stand a rightful place alongside the Atari 2600 for helping shape the unwritten standards and gameplay mechanics for platform games? And I would say it was Nintendo and Sega whose earliest games have had a profound influence on futuristic vector (or vector-ish) graphic artists, including but not limited to the Designer's Republic and just about every flyer you see for a techno music gathering.
As much as I love roguelikes, I can't say they have had such a profound influence on our society and pop culture as 1980's game consoles have, and Nintendo had a huge hand in that. There is, after all, more to videogames than just playing them. Nintendo didn't do it alone, but it definitely was "there". Every videogame history article I've read also makes claims that it was mostly Nintendo, though, that pulled the videogame market out of some kind of wheezing slump in the earliest parts of the 1980s.
I'm sorry, but how exactly are "open-source" and "profitable" mutually exclusive? Considering "open source" doesn't necessarily equal "freeware". It depends on the open source license you choose -- you are only subject to "communism" if you choose an OSS license that is too restrictive for business (such as the GPL, which I've always felt does more harm than good in the goal of bringing more businesses' trust towards open source models).
I understand your concern but it is fundamentally unfounded.
That video had me until the actual console, then I LOLed out loud. Nintendo wouldn't release an eyesore like that.
And that Mario clip at the very abrupt end was obviously not by any Nintendo-employed artists. He was way too tall and skinny to be Mario, unless that was Luigi wearing Mario's clothes and moustache.
I read the article and I'm highly skeptical this thing would work as intended, anyway. The most results it will probably retrieve for the feds would be FAQs for the Grand Theft Auto games.
Similar to the way solar panels work by catching photons from the sun and turning them into current, the science of betavoltaics uses silicon to capture electrons emitted from a radioactive gas, such as tritium, to form a current
Well sure, but only if you defenestrate the bihyperthermal aeonic trasmitters via a series of Gaussian-engine transmutative capacitors, and even then, that doesn't guarantee that the overall torque of the endophotonic plasma difibrulator will reach maximum joules-per-atomic-nanogrammaton. I mean, this isn't rocket science, people.
I'm more curious about what the chip manufacturers may have to say about this. Would they have a legal case to stand on against Microsoft doing this? Would they want to?
I know it's in another country, but nonetheless, wouldn't it still negatively impact Intel's and AMD's markets in India in one way or another, in a potentially anti-competitive way even if Microsoft aren't themselves chipmakers?
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Was that a poo reference?
argh you beat me to it :)
I didn't care for Wind Waker because 1) I still don't know if that's actually Link I'm playing [from what I could remember, it's just a kid who looks like him, based on a yearly tradition], and 2) Hyrule went all New Orleans on itself and I spent most of my time sailing instead of fighting or dungeon-spelunkeling. I just can't bring myself to consider it a canonical Zelda game.
What's to stop you from using an older version of the GPL to bypass this retaliation clause? Or are updates to the GPL retro-active to older licenses even if older GPL licenses don't have those changes reflected in their texts?
Is this what you're thinking of?
Why parent post isn't marked as 5: Insightful is beyond me. He nailed the exact reason right on the head.
For example, the SystemRestoreCD is a Linux distribution, but it doesn't actually have Linux in its name. Does this still apply, however, since the kernel in that distro still makes mention to "Linux" when you use it?
If so, can you just do a find-and-replace on "Linux" changing it to something completely different on the entire source code, re-compile, and it would still be legal as long as you still adhere to the GNU license?
Even though Nintendo was by no means the first, I wouldn't exclude it from being in a, er, "roots" category. Doesn't Nintendo's soundchip stand a rightful place alongside the Commodore 64's SID for being the precursor to chiptune aesthetics by today's chiptune composers? Doesn't Nintendo stand a rightful place alongside the Atari 2600 for helping shape the unwritten standards and gameplay mechanics for platform games? And I would say it was Nintendo and Sega whose earliest games have had a profound influence on futuristic vector (or vector-ish) graphic artists, including but not limited to the Designer's Republic and just about every flyer you see for a techno music gathering.
As much as I love roguelikes, I can't say they have had such a profound influence on our society and pop culture as 1980's game consoles have, and Nintendo had a huge hand in that. There is, after all, more to videogames than just playing them. Nintendo didn't do it alone, but it definitely was "there". Every videogame history article I've read also makes claims that it was mostly Nintendo, though, that pulled the videogame market out of some kind of wheezing slump in the earliest parts of the 1980s.
No, but they are patenting the Rinuks Kelner.
I'm sorry, but how exactly are "open-source" and "profitable" mutually exclusive? Considering "open source" doesn't necessarily equal "freeware". It depends on the open source license you choose -- you are only subject to "communism" if you choose an OSS license that is too restrictive for business (such as the GPL, which I've always felt does more harm than good in the goal of bringing more businesses' trust towards open source models).
I understand your concern but it is fundamentally unfounded.
Old Man Tucket
Sat upon a bucket
Eating his beans and grits
Until he got an urge
To squeeze hard and purge
As he got a case of the shits
The smell wafted and sailed
For miles philosophers hailed
Of how it pillaged their wits!
I blame the General MIDI standard for allowing banjos in the default instrument bank.
Specifically the Bush + Zombie-Reagan ballot.
http://www.bush-zombiereagan.com/
The brain-hungry flesh-eating undead zombies roaming the Earth were like, "hey, that candidate looks like us. He's got my vote!".
Troll? :| Moderators aren't big George Romero fans I guess.
They voted for BRAINS I want to eat BRAINS BRAINS HUNGRY FOR BRAINS!!
Phil Collins fellating a Pringles chip. Now I've seen it all.
Why listen to a guy who can't even get computer keyboards designed correctly?
That video had me until the actual console, then I LOLed out loud. Nintendo wouldn't release an eyesore like that.
And that Mario clip at the very abrupt end was obviously not by any Nintendo-employed artists. He was way too tall and skinny to be Mario, unless that was Luigi wearing Mario's clothes and moustache.
I read the article and I'm highly skeptical this thing would work as intended, anyway. The most results it will probably retrieve for the feds would be FAQs for the Grand Theft Auto games.
Similar to the way solar panels work by catching photons from the sun and turning them into current, the science of betavoltaics uses silicon to capture electrons emitted from a radioactive gas, such as tritium, to form a current
Well sure, but only if you defenestrate the bihyperthermal aeonic trasmitters via a series of Gaussian-engine transmutative capacitors, and even then, that doesn't guarantee that the overall torque of the endophotonic plasma difibrulator will reach maximum joules-per-atomic-nanogrammaton. I mean, this isn't rocket science, people.
I know. Foreign-object-in-butt jokes usually get instant giggles from even the most conservative crowds.
He should count his lucky stars that it exploded in his hands, rather than when he put it up his butt.
I'm more curious about what the chip manufacturers may have to say about this. Would they have a legal case to stand on against Microsoft doing this? Would they want to?
I know it's in another country, but nonetheless, wouldn't it still negatively impact Intel's and AMD's markets in India in one way or another, in a potentially anti-competitive way even if Microsoft aren't themselves chipmakers?
Because Keanu Reeves isn't a cast member of these movies.