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I wonder What Stallman would think of ROM hacking, and other mod communities that reverse engineer proprietary games, and fundamentally transform (either throug
by andrewclunn 5y ago
I wonder What Stallman would think of ROM hacking, and other mod communities that reverse engineer proprietary games, and fundamentally transform (either through direct hacks or rebuilding from decompiled source) them into something more akin to open culture. Legally? No, which is why I doubt he'll ever comment on it, but I imagine he might say that this is a distopian notion where people have to break laws to take ownership of culture because everything is fundamentally non-free.
- d_tr 5y agoHe made a comment about reverse engineering in response to a question. Someone asked about reverse engineering something (I think it was about some teleconferencing application), and his response was basically "it's hard work, go for it, but make sure you are not breaking the law in your country".