Gary Bowser is out of jail after being sued by Nintendo and would be an interesting AMA here
Gary Bowser is out of jail after being sued by Nintendo and would be an interesting AMA here
The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/
Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.
Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.
Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.
Agreed. SOG did a video on him a few months ago.
I don't know, if I put out GPL software, I wouldn't give a fuck if it got used to fuck over Nintendo without following all the GPL nonsense. They took the legal risk of going up against Nintendo, I sure as hell didn't take any risk writing code. Them profiting a bit isn't the end of the world. No one was going to make any money staying within legal limits anyway, nothing was "stolen".
Edit: Just to be clear, all I know about Bowser is based on the parent comment. Maybe he's a bigger POS than the example given but, from that, doesn't seem like a major villain.
If that's the case you probably wouldn't release GPL software, you'd find a more permissive license, perhaps apache?
SX OS has anti-piracy measures in place which literally brick your switch.
I wouldn't say no sympathy.
Gary suffers from Lymphedema in his left leg, starting just below the kneecap down to the ankle.
Lymphoedema is pretty awful, I feel bad for anyone living with it.
Isn't he basically screwed for the rest of his life though? Having to pay some of his wage to Nintendo
Most of his wage. 14.5 million docked from his paychecks for the rest of his life. There’s not much more info in how much will be docked from his pay, as in a percentage or flat cost
Edit: I read more into it. It’s 25-30% of his paycheck goes to Nintendo.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/bowser-free-from-prison-still-owes-nintendo-14-5m-for-switch-hacking/ See at the bottom
He will die owing Nintendo tens of millions of dollars. Fuck Nintendo
Yeah. I wonder will it show up as Nintendo Tax on his payslip?
Being his last name is Bowser i thought i had to be a joke. This is wild.
And when the president of NOA's last name is Bowser, too, all sorts of fanciful scenarios are just coming to mind.
It's nominative determinism. It's a real thing.
They named their most iconic antagonist after him?
The CEO of Nintendo of America is curiously also named Bowser. Seems they are going out of their way to find them.
No, they named him after the current president of Nintendo of America -- Doug Bowser.
This entire situation can be summed up as Bowser suing Bowser Jr. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Interesting story, and pretty sad at the end, the dude lost practically everything because of the fuckers at Nintendo. Heres his gofundme page if someone is interested in helping the guy out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life
I don't have too much sympathy for the guy. I mean if you're stupid enough to try and profit off of piracy that brazenly, that's what you get. If I know your real name you fucked up big time.
If 30% of his paycheck goes to Nintendo, does that also apply to donations?
So long Gary bowser
So long, Gay Bowser!
curses hetero mario in gay bowser as it flies away
Interesting story, and pretty sad at the end, the dude lost practically everything because of the fuckers at Nintendo. Heres his gofundme page if someone is interested in helping the guy out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life
Was changing his name to Bowser a part of the release?