REQ: Stolen trainers to be removed from GCW

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by instant

Just because you disagree with something does not make the statement silly.

Agreed. However, it's up to the author to decide under what license his or her software is released. As I wrote already, I'm also for free software, therefore my upcoming GNU-style utilities will also be released along with full source: I've had lots of struggles and lots of fun creating them and now I'm giving them back to the global community that I gleaned examples from. I have a job and I don't need to make money from my hobby programs. But, again, this was my choice.

Originally Posted by instant

I am sure CH would still make money even if they opensourced their trainers.

Also agreed. Free (as in "free beer") software is orthogonal to free (as in "free speech", aka open-source) software. Most users know shit about coding, they might not even be able to compile the published source.

Originally Posted by instant

Have not read any tutorials on this forum, but from other forums I would say that some of them have been somewhat lacking for me to get a clear understanding of them... or written "hastily" so they are only usefull to a very limited number of people who have the patience to read Ghetto-speak or are already familiar with the material being discussed.

Many programmers hate to write documentation or even comment their source, with the attitude "if you don't understand it yourself, you're no worth of making use of it anyway". This is, actually, sad as there are lots of people whose lack of talent is contrasted by a strong will to learn. Help them and they will also become good programmers - although not as flexible as truly talented ones -: you know, the "work horses" working under the supervision of someone with greater knowledge and freeing this boss of theirs from having to do simple jobs, ones that are "below" his talent. There's definitely a need for such people, too!