Comment Re:Be realistic (Score 1) 184
Thats not true. If they're playing WoW they're still willingly paying Activision money. Actions are louder than words.
How does it make perfect sense? This guy did know the laws of the place he was visiting and knowingly broke them. Given that he was studying the issues of that country and he translated a political text on those issues years ago, it should be understood that the original post doesn't make any sense at all.
Further, your point supports my position of understanding context even more. I realize that slashdot omitted this fact and he actually does have thai citizenship. This detail, which can be gathered by looking further than the summary, is absolute proof that he understands the laws of the country he is going to. I believe its a requirement of citizenship in most countries .
What ever happened to people understanding context?
Those "definitions" of what OSS is then. They don't apply here at all. They're only those organizations ideal definitions of what OSS should be.
snes9x explicitly declares how the source they release can be used. The FSF has no jurisdiction on the matter
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Those two licences don't apply here.
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute Snes9x in both binary and source form, for non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee, providing that this license information and copyright notice appear with all copies and any derived work.
Why are you being modded insightful? This is clearly a non-commercial licence issue and he never said anything about OSS being a "poisoned chalice". Nobody ever said anything close to "it's immoral to make money off OSS software" and I suspect nobody will since its a position that can quickly be eroded. Since we're talking about it though, taking clearly licensed for non commercial use code and selling it directly in a market without any kind of consideration to the licence, is very immoral. There is absolutely no insight provided in your comment. Only FUD.
I'm calling shenanigans. There is defiantly something other to this story here. Every exchange I've had with steam support has been very forthcoming. I've been using the service since day 1 and have received help with numerous problems. I'm also fairly certain that absolutely no steam customer service rep will ask you for your credit card information. Proof of purchase would've been the last 4 numbers of the card. The story seems a little far fetched, what with claims of demanding CC information and flat out refusing to tell you why it was disabled. They will always tell you why it was disabled. Perhaps it was this for breaking the code of conduct or any one of these other reasons
The strict enforcement of this conduct is one of the main reasons I game on steam rather than xbox live
How is pointing this out insightful? Its because of the 6 digits isn't it?
This is news to somebody. Nerds perhaps. Isn't that what slashdot is about? Noteworthy events that nerds might find interesting?
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