Learn about Linux before you blast it
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Originally posted by darianX
A modded Xbox is not legal...but it's perfectly legal for Linux eggheads who never pay for software because "it should be free". I abhor the "linux community"......
A modded Xbox is very legal. Just like I can take my lawnmower and make it into a giant blender, I can take my purchased Xbox and make it into anything I want. The illegality comes into place when you start dealing with the Intellectual property, which in the case of the Xbox is built into the hardware. The previous Linux-for-Xbox projects dealt with a stolen Xbox SDK, which is very illegal. These guys are completely in the clear.
Before you start blasting the Linux and Open Source community, get your facts straight.
As I stated earlier, I am an Open Source (ie Linux) Developer. I make MONEY doing that. I don't have a beef with anyone making money off of their work. What I DO have a problem with is when a corporation tells me that their way of doing things is the only way they will allow it to happen, case closed.
Let me give you a scenario. I write a small program in perl for a Linux operating system with a GPL license. I can still charge whatever I want for it. I don't have to give it out at all if I don't want to. Whoever buys that software and can repackage it, tweak it, whatever they want with it, but with the following major condition: they must release the source code. That way, anyone that gets it can look at it, try to make it better, whatever. Nowhere does it say you have to give it away THE PRODUCT for free.
If I'm allowed to take my car apart, put on new pieces (ie tweaking), to make it run the way I want to, why shouldn't I be able to do the same with some software?
Granted, the majority of people could care less. But those of us that want to tweak our cars/software to better do what we want should be allowed to do so. Microsoft is very bad about letting you in to see how the product you paid for works, while the Linux side of things is much more open.
That's why I'm excited about this project.