When ppl spread my work for free, ppl won't donate anymore because they just use my stolen work to boost their profit. When I release #3, the stolen work is not profitable anymore, and the only option is to donate or steal my work again. If they steal again, I get 2% of the profit from everyone who mine with my stolen miner.
Why do you bitch about 2%.?
I release a faster miner, that will boost your profit, and my profit. It's a win win both for me and the honest donators, and loosing game for the scammers who stole and published my work.
It's funny you are complaining about stealing...
The problem it not that you are selling your mods (you can call i donating all day long, but you are just selling it). You are absolutely right, that you are able to sell your work.
The problem is, your work is based on code under the GPL license (because it seems you are unable to start it from scratch), with require you to give access to your code if requested (which has been done multiple times). And you have to do this, even if you would give your code away for free. We can be sure you know that stuff, you just ignore it because you think nobody will ever get you.
So the "thieves" steal from someone who violated the GPL license for years.
This is just stupid fucking rhetoric to get things for free. You aren't going to 'force' him to release his work for free. If push comes to shove, he, just like a lot of other developers that make their own miners stop making them. Then big farms who can afford to hire actual developers get easy high performance miners with no competition.
You lose, public developers lose, and private farms win. Go educate yourself before you make fucking retarded knee jerk statements. GPL licensing has absolutely no baring what so ever here. No one is going to take SP to court, no one is losing lots of money because of this (except big farms), and at the end of the day it really doesn't matter.
People use whatever rational they want to justify their actions. Only thing GPL licensing is helping in this case is megafarms and I'm guessing your two rigs don't qualify for that status.
So you say it's ok to violate rules if enough people profit from it?
Why not rob a bank and give the money to the poor? Oh, because robbery is not allowed? But hey, if you don't do it, only a few rich people will profit from the money!
Just make sure you aren't seen while robbing the bank, so nobody will take you to court! It's so simple!
But i agree with you, people use whatever rational they want to justify their actions, you gave a good example.
It's alright to violate rules when they generally don't benefit the greater good. Furthermore no one gets hurt when people violate them in this case. It doesn't help the greater good and it doesn't hurt anyone except egos. You aren't murdering people for profit here. And those that would violate them regardless are the people that will profit behind the scenes.
This isn't robbing a bank. This isn't taking someone elses money. You can take your perceived moral high ground, eat a dick, and remain poor. As long as it helps you sleep at night. People don't put anything into context anymore, they just take it and run way out into left field. I'm guessing GPL violations means I'm dropping sacks of kittens into a river while laughing, right?
You can't even make a argument about morality here besides there being a rule in place. Moral high ground is actually taking the code, making the best miner possible, then distributing it to everyone possible (dev fee). Flat fee is the next closest thing. SP is literally helping you and all you want to do is bitch about it and then bitch about a fee, then bitch about a flat fee, then bitch about GPL. It's not going to make it free and it reduces the chances of him (or any developer) making a miner in the first place. People who can, once again, hire their own talent will do so and fuck you while you're pretending they don't exist and stay happy that no GPL violates are visible.
And who decides if it’s for the greater good? You? I? SP?
Have a look at a the real world: Extreme left-wingers will tell you it’s ok to throw rocks at the police, because it’s for a greater good! I think we agree it’s not, but in their opinion they do the right thing.
But because everyone has a different opinion, there are rules we have to follow. Don’t throw rocks at police, don’t sell worked based on gpl code without making the source available.
Violating the rules makes you a criminal, not a hero.
And btw, you said my bank example is wrong because this isn't taking someone elses money. Well, it is - you take the money of the big farms if the global hashrate rises.
Of course, I don’t like this too! But once again, because I don’t like something is a not enough reason to turn to crime.
