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    3 hours ago

    Agreed. Most of us really do not think about this shit as often as we should. I know I am guilty of assuming he when typing. I know because I make an effort not to be. And notice how often I need to correct text. Being older than many developers. I just grew up with the assumptions. So like many my age needed my attention drawn to the societal indoctrination.

    People politely pointing it out is important. As is people volunteering to help correct older documentation.


  • The direct numerics of moors law may not be definite.

    But the principal it defines is. In the future computers will have much more power then they do now.

    The reason modern GPUs use things like shaders etc is to allow them to archive massive manipulation of data in more efficient ways specific for the task desired.

    Honestly this is why I mention time scale as the main thing that will make this possible. How modern gpus or other specialised processers do the task is less important then what the game code is asking the gpu to achieve.

    The idea that at a unknown future date. The CPU GPUs or what ever future tech we have. will never be able to run fast enough to read current cpu or gpu instruction sets. And generate the effect defined using future techniques is not viable as an argument. The only questions are how long and is anyone going to have the motivation to reverse engineer the large but finite instruction sets used by secretive hardware corps today.


  • Not so sure about that. When you consider time spans.

    Currently we can emulate the majority of early games consoles. So theoretically with time and Moors law any hardware will be emulate able in a few decades. With enough information.

    The advantage of open source software. Is it can be used with the original binaries to reverse engineer the instruction set even if the original manufacturer wishes to hide it. So with will and effort even the most complex hardware will be able to be emulated on future much faster hardware.





  • You can copy binary code. Just as easy as source code.

    It is only when running on a different architecture it gets a bit more complex.

    And give the binary is directly translatable by software. Not hugely more complex for any company of the size you are unwilling to fight in court over open source code.

    Sorry but no you are wrong. Hading the source in no way makes code harder to copy. Its how most of us hacked into games in the 1990s.

    After all binary code is just simpler instruction set that takes very very minimal effort to convert into assembly language. And can be read by many even without that effort.

    Its hardly a secret encrypted format. (Unless you are also designing your own hardware and not letting anyone see that. )


  • Is it anymore the case with other licences though.

    Obscurity is no security at all. If you have no ability to fight to keep tour copy right or patient. People will copy it open or closed.

    Even direct machine code can be copied a reverse engineered fairly simply.

    So non of this is purely a open source permissive licence issue. Its a big corperations acting like fudal lords issue.




  • OK so this sounds like you are surprised. That most people upset haven’t done something a relatively small % of the public have done.

    And I am unsure why you think the point has any value. Political candidates represent a tiny % of the population. If each one had hundreds of people working with them. It would still be a tiny % of society…

    Add to that that the vast majority of society actually has a life they need to work earn raise families. Honestly the largest percentage of society just dose not have the time or energy to protest or take part in politics.

    They still have a right to complain that the people they are paying to do the job. To do it to a standard or in a way they don’t like.

    Have you ever milked a cow. Do you still feel annoyed and complain when someone sells you off milk.



  • Depends what nation you are in and how you obtained it.

    Anyone can release software under any licence. As long as they are not breaking the licence they release under. Or the licence they use any 3rd party code is under

    I do not think GPL has any rules about claims. Just actual actions. But if they released in under another licence. Then it is possible. (But unlikely). The licence has such rules.

    So in most cases. Actual actions or lack of rather then claims. Based on the licence is your only option. And that would mean contact he authors of any included code. Or FSF etc.

    Some nations have advertising rules. Depending on how and where it was obtained you may be able to contact their advertising standards association equiv.

    But providng for free can often weaken this. Although it is likely far from an absolute excuse to false advertising.


  • Ok. Not sure losing 20 years to a court basing ideas on such things is any better. Seems even 20 years ago a defence would be able to provide diverging experts. 20 years ago genetics was fairly well understood even if we know more now. The idea of a family having a common issue was fully expetlcted in the 1990s let alone 2000.

    As a anacdotal example. My family surrers from an eye condition. Thar was believed to be the result of a period of illness in my father i. The 70s

    My brother had it from 10 and my more recently.

    It was about 1990 rhat the experts started to recognise ot was a genetic conditio. Carried by all males. So the time this woman was jailed. The ideas had been well known in science for iver 10 years. Someone would have been able to provide expert witness doubting the paediatric ideals.

    But lets be honest. Much of the US laws being instituted in firced borth states is based on similar unsupported ideals)