Subj : Re: NetRunner source
To   : Rampage
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 07:49:00

-=> Rampage wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ra>   Re: Re: NetRunner source
 Ra>   By: Gamgee to Underminer on Tue Aug 18 2020 07:47:00


 Un> Due to some recent bad experiences with code theft, James has
 Un> stopped making the source for Mystic/NetRunner available, but the
 Un> binaries are simple and work. ---

 Ra>  Gamgee> Not sure how "recent" that may have been, but both have
 Ra>  Gamgee> been closed-source for as long as I can remember...

 Ra> i had a copy of the repo for the v1.11 series when it was open
 Ra> source... he killed the repo for several reasons... 1) bug
 Ra> reports on things he had already fixed but hadn't pushed to the
 Ra> repo for others to pull... 2) code submissions he didn't like for
 Ra> some reason... 3) general trolling on code stuffs... nothing at
 Ra> all was said about "code theft" at the time... it was more stress
 Ra> than anything else that lead to the repo being killed... it just
 Ra> fit his workflow better to not be open source like that... RL
 Ra> stress as well as the bug reports just stacked up and he wasn't a
 Ra> happy grasshopper... i recognized certain code libraries being
 Ra> used (MKSMG) with no attribution at that time... not that it was
 Ra> any big deal... but nothing about code theft that i recall...

Ahhhh, OK thanks for that info.  Seems like he's kind of a 
tempermental and strange bird...



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