This doesn't really fit with what i've read in this thread so far.

So a few of them get together and make a copy of your game. It's got the same gameplay elements that they liked in your game, but uses different art and a new engine.

So then it's not "my" game then. If you've made a knockoff that's still a completely different game because you've put a lot of effort into making it. If you look at the efforts of something like OpenMW in which they're trying to make an open sourced version of Morrowind with the same art assets, it's taken them years to complete and they're no where near done yet. This is the exact opposite of copying a game and pirating it which takes minutes without DRM or a few days with it.

I can think of a couple ways it can deprive a game developer directly and these are all well documented:

- If a pirated version is released that crashes, the game can get terrible reviews for crashing all the time
- Pirates that phone, email and tweet for support wasting developers time with non-paying "customers"

> If you just released Mario Party 7, would you want Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, and Mario Party 6 to be on shelves?

One look at any EA sports franchise would prove to you this point rarely stands against time.

If the submitter did that then in typical slashdot fashion we'd all be sitting here arguing minor details about the company rather then answer his question.

What do you mean "could have been" it's simply a fork on gnome with some patches.. It's literally "what is used to be".

oh really? Is that why children can be convicted of crimes right?

Please ignore the haters and keep doing things you love. Most of these GNUtards are just users rather then programmers so their opinions don't matter anyway.

Seems like not all the code is theirs afterall..

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/8/456

Second, you claim you hold exclusive copyright for the code. Not true. One example: on http://www.risingtidesystems.com/storage.html you claim
support for FCoE. You didn't build tcm_fc, Intel did. Under the GPLv2. Furthermore, SRP support came from SCST, iirc. None of these contributors gave RTS any right to use their copyrighted code except under the conditions of the GPLv2.

There already is evidence of infringement they cite code that intel contributed and shows up in their proprietary version of the module. If you're developing a competing proprietary module you shouldn't be the kernel maintainer anyway. This guy has the power to refuse patches to the open sourced version to make his company's version remain better. The fact there is a conflict of interest there shows he shouldn't be in that position regardless of the fact that he's probably the best guy for the job.

I agree with what you're saying but I have a problem with said person being in charge of the kernel module as it is in this case. He can prevent others from competing with his own proprietary module by refusing patch requests that improve the open sourced version.

No because this is slashdot, it's not about pandering to the crowds that:

1) Don't know about the technology in question

2) Are so lazy that if they don't know something would rather make a comment about it then to simply google said topic.

Insulted because someone doesn't believe in your version of reality... Sounds like you both believe in a religion to me. Next time you might be better off with a well reasoned response.

What secret source? It's time someone called out your bullshit. So show us this horrible abuse that's going on, well..? Where is it?

> So how is the GPL license being incompatible with BSD's license OF ANY IMPLICATION AT ALL in using the GCC compiler with BSD?

Apple is spearheading the process behind LLVM. When GCC changed to GPL 3 they began work on replacing GCC used in xcode with LLVM.

The whole including it in the BSD OS is because they don't want to be seen as hypocrites by depending upon a GPL program.

Loads of people have figured this out. MySQL for example has a community and enterprise edition. Id Software just released the BFG edition of Doom 3 along with open sourcing the code, you still need to pay for the game to get the game assets.