The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/
- dsemy ( @dsemy@vlemmy.net ) English90•1 year ago
Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.
Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.
Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.
- Ilandar ( @Ilandar@aussie.zone ) English6•1 year ago
I wouldn’t say no sympathy.
Gary suffers from Lymphedema in his left leg, starting just below the kneecap down to the ankle.
Lymphoedema is pretty awful, I feel bad for anyone living with it.
- P03 Locke ( @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
Agreed. SOG did a video on him a few months ago.
- jtk ( @jtk@lemmy.sdf.org ) English4•1 year ago
I don’t know, if I put out GPL software, I wouldn’t give a fuck if it got used to fuck over Nintendo without following all the GPL nonsense. They took the legal risk of going up against Nintendo, I sure as hell didn’t take any risk writing code. Them profiting a bit isn’t the end of the world. No one was going to make any money staying within legal limits anyway, nothing was “stolen”.
Edit: Just to be clear, all I know about Bowser is based on the parent comment. Maybe he’s a bigger POS than the example given but, from that, doesn’t seem like a major villain.
- CCL ( @CCL@links.hackliberty.org ) English10•1 year ago
If that’s the case you probably wouldn’t release GPL software, you’d find a more permissive license, perhaps apache?
- dsemy ( @dsemy@vlemmy.net ) English5•1 year ago
SX OS has anti-piracy measures in place which literally brick your switch.
- Swictor ( @Swictor@mander.xyz ) English19•1 year ago
They named their most iconic antagonist after him?
- anon ( @anon@lemm.ee ) English31•1 year ago
The CEO of Nintendo of America is curiously also named Bowser. Seems they are going out of their way to find them.
- LoafyLemon ( @LoafyLemon@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
No, they named him after the current president of Nintendo of America – Doug Bowser.
This entire situation can be summed up as Bowser suing Bowser Jr. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- idle ( @idle@158436977.xyz ) English17•1 year ago
Being his last name is Bowser i thought i had to be a joke. This is wild.
- ruk_n_rul ( @ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc ) English1•1 year ago
It’s nominative determinism. It’s a real thing.
- DeJaVu ( @DeJaVu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•1 year ago
Interesting story, and pretty sad at the end, the dude lost practically everything because of the fuckers at Nintendo. Heres his gofundme page if someone is interested in helping the guy out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@feddit.de ) English1•1 year ago
If 30% of his paycheck goes to Nintendo, does that also apply to donations?
- Gloop Tamer ( @GloopTamer@discuss.online ) English12•1 year ago
So long Gary bowser
- bergkoenig ( @bergkoenig@lemmy.one ) English6•1 year ago
So long, Gay Bowser!
- DonDino ( @DonDino@mujico.org ) English1•1 year ago
curses hetero mario in gay bowser as it flies away
- DeJaVu ( @DeJaVu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
Interesting story, and pretty sad at the end, the dude lost practically everything because of the fuckers at Nintendo. Heres his gofundme page if someone is interested in helping the guy out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life
- Vertelleus ( @vertelleus@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Was changing his name to Bowser a part of the release?