AlexMax
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Kilgore said:
Up yours pal. Fuck you very much too ;-)
Talking to you on more amicable terms doesn't really change your responses, so why bother.
And the fact that they did nothing despite your letters to them proves that you're full of shit. It was real smart of you back then to bite the hand that fed you. Ostracize my ass I say.
The fact that they never got around to sending you a C&D doesn't mean that you were right. Stealing is stealing.
There was for example an "illustrious gentleman" from this (DW) community who used the openess as a blueprint for his attacks on the Zdaemon master, including hijacking a program used by players of another port to do a DDOS).
Protocol obfuscation is not an effective means of preventing DDoSes. It just makes it slightly harder for Blzut3 to add a plugin for Doomseeker. Besides, for years after the attack you had a publicly available API that IDE_Net demonstrated, but as soon as Blzut3 implemented it in Doomseeker you shut it off. Then when he figured out your protocol you got really mad that a server browser for the most popular online doom port was giving you free exposure and promised to switch up the protocol on him. What the hell is wrong with you?
Cheaters: several such examples come to mind. Some people used it for "custom cheats" (so they can claim that they're gods), while others used it in a very obvious fashion in order to destroy the game of others.
*laughs* Do I really have to point to the countless commercial games that have cheats released for them? After years of wallhacks and aimbots, not even the Zandronum community buys that bullshit anymore.
Power hungry would-be-usurpers who try to derive (and exercise) influence by threatening to basically steal (fork) the source code: case in point, the above commissars that raise hell every time anyone mentions the ZDaemon name on a public forum.
I don't want to be in your position. I don't want there to be a "your position". Your position shouldn't exist. You should be enpowering your server administrators and players, not smacking the back of their hands with a ruler when they do something you don't approve of.
Assorted fruitcakes: There was a guy for example who wanted to get his hands on the source code so he could modify his own servers to kill people who used some legit option that he personally disapproved of.
As far as I'm concerned, that's their right as a server admin. You want to know why? Because for every server that does something players don't like, there's a dozen easy alternatives that do. Hell, Konar runs some of the most popular Zandronum servers out there and he uses his own custom build of Zandronum and somehow the sky hasn't fallen.
And how many people did actually do anything good (from the ZDaemon project's POV) with the source code while the source code was open? like contribute a bug fix for example? I'm afraid that such instances were counted on the fingers of one hand.
You shouldn't do it because you expect something in return. You should do it for your community's sake and because without John Carmack, Randy Heit and countless other contributors beforehand choosing to open their source, you wouldn't have a ZDaemon to be working on. It's within your licensed rights to keep the source closed, but it's also incredibly selfish.
But if you're asking us to share the code with people who crap on us every waking moment, then sorry: that will NOT happen. And if someone thinks we owe him the code (or anything), I've got some news for him: we're NOT your employees. ZDaemon is based on OUR effort and OUR dime. We will not be pushed around by people who think they can come to OUR place and dictate terms.
Forget me. Forget Ladna. You owe your damn community publicly available source. If someone makes a legit fork and the community packs up and leaves you behind, that's your fault for being a complete shitheel, not theirs.
Last edited by AlexMax on 09-08-12 at 22:25
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