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Team Xecuter are heroes in my book. They risked and lost everything to fight for my right to do what I want with hardware I bought, and I don't really care if t
by causality0 4y ago
Team Xecuter are heroes in my book. They risked and lost everything to fight for my right to do what I want with hardware I bought, and I don't really care if they made a couple bucks doing it. Their end also brought the end of the xecuter community, probably the friendliest and least hateful gaming community I've ever seen.
- Genwald 4y agoAs someone who followed this scene pretty closely for a while, they absolutely are not seen as heroes by most. The primary controversies being their use of Atmosphere components and promotion of piracy. Atmosphere being a free open source gplv2 project that does much of the same thing as Team Xecuter's SXOS. They benefited greatly from this existing project while violating its license by keeping SXOS closed source and profiting off of it. Their main addition being tools to support piracy. Additionally, at one point SXOS contained anti reverse engineering code that attempted to brick or at least temporarily disable the console of those investigating their cfw. https://twitter.com/hexkyz/status/1012363017957380096 https://twitter.com/hexkyz/status/1012363017957380096 Definitely not a group to idolize imo.
- striking 4y agoOther people have been working to get homebrew running without charging for it or making it explicitly geared towards piracy. Let the homebrew community be your heroes, not these folks doing actual crime and making real money on it.