If your position is "may", you're on shaky legal ground at best. Regardless, he would be forced to shutter his side project with a CnD, since I doubt he's willing to go to court.
Who gives a shit about shaky legal ground? How will a CnD shutter his side project? Could just take it offline and continue to build it. I doubt Nintendo are going to go through the lengths to force him to destroy a .py file or two...
It's as if every line of code written needs to be useful. I'm seeing this more and more. Many cool projects are criticised based on how useful they are rather than how cool they are. Maybe if a project was positioned as useful/sellable, then perhaps such criticism is justified, but when something is obviously not meant for sell and has obviously been built for all except seriousness, it just comes across as daft.
Just the other day I saw a comment about an embedded PHP interpreter. "How will this EVER be useful?" Who gives a shit? It looks fun to write, so it was written.
I personally enjoy programming. Most code I have written has made me 0 money, has been seen by 0 eyes and has provided me hours of fun and pleasure in writing it. I'm sure many programmers are the same.
His homebrew version, for self education does way less harm than the millions of ROMs out there running on MAME. It is a single level, not a full clone that gets sold for profit at Target.
jwdunne|12 years ago
It's as if every line of code written needs to be useful. I'm seeing this more and more. Many cool projects are criticised based on how useful they are rather than how cool they are. Maybe if a project was positioned as useful/sellable, then perhaps such criticism is justified, but when something is obviously not meant for sell and has obviously been built for all except seriousness, it just comes across as daft.
Just the other day I saw a comment about an embedded PHP interpreter. "How will this EVER be useful?" Who gives a shit? It looks fun to write, so it was written.
I personally enjoy programming. Most code I have written has made me 0 money, has been seen by 0 eyes and has provided me hours of fun and pleasure in writing it. I'm sure many programmers are the same.
sitkack|12 years ago