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  terop ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2022 @ 11:49am

  It’s very clear that Meshpage has no developer community.

  Its available at irc/quakenet #c++ channel.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2022 @ 11:47am

  Even children know not to murder and rape in the name of copyright law.

  I'm glad you didn't include robbery to this list, given that there was some robbery event with some 15 year old criminal kids who wanted my money. Dunno if copyright was their reason for the robbery, but it seems to happen too often.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2022 @ 06:52am

  The 2 billion 2d web sites on the planet says otherwise.

  .. says nobody with the capacity to comprehend how proof works, ever.

  What do you think a proof is? According to Curry-Howard Isomorphism, every piece of software implementation has ability to prove the type of the function where the implementation belongs to. Also, enumerating the instances required is significant proof technique called induction.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2022 @ 12:04am

  You were confident that you could make bank on this personal project of yours. You were personally assured of this genius business strategy.

  Unfortunately none of the above is true. I already knew at age 10 that software and money are incompatible because software can be freely copied and money does not have that property and thus price of software is going to approach zero. So I never imagined that I can "make a bank" from the project. This is why the project is a hobby (and you can't talk about genius business strategy), and it cannot change its status from hobby to business until the markets are fixing software area status to something more compatible with properties of money. But this is why killing the piracy market is important, since they're the ones where this idea comes from that people do not want to pay for software/copying the software is free/thus everyone should get their software without payment.

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 11:51pm

  File format incompatibility is not a feature of copyright law.

  You are wrong. copyright law explicitly states that author's exclusive operations are DISPLAY, perform and distribute of copyrighted works. This display part is clearly unavailable when your software do not accept the files and thus cannot display them on computer screen. Thus file formats being incompatible is a valid defense against copyright infringement lawsuit that is claiming violation of the display exclusive operation.

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 11:44pm

  Nobody believes that you stopped hating humans

  I still hate everyone. But that does not mean I can't redirect my anger towards gadgets which deserve my focus more than the bastards called "humans".

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 11:42pm

  if you don’t tell users more features can be unlocked by paying, exactly what motivates them to give you money?

  well, current situation is that they can't even get a cube to the screen with the builder tool, so they might not need those additional features. I'll just ensure that once users learn to use builder, I have additional features in line for release to the crowds.

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 11:34pm

  open admission that even you cannot meet your extreme maximalist copyright standards.

  its much much worse than this. Controlling one person is easy relative to the controlling of the elephant herd that destroys everything in their path. Your task is to teach maximalist copyright principles to the elephants and make them respect the almost invisible dividing line drawn in the water...

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 06:08am

  Because nobody enjoys having to pay for something at artificially increased prices, several times over the cost of manufacturing.

  This is a bad fallacy. You simply cannot assume that if writing some piece of horrible spaghetti source code takes 150,000 dollars, that the author has 100,000 customers queuing for the product and you should then get it with the price of 1.5 dollars. The costs are not divided this way when we talk about software. Initial cost of course dominates, but there is also cost associated with making the product available in your area of the world. So there are actual overheads in marketing and product placement which increases the 1.5 dollar amount and the right price for the product is more like 150 dollars. Exactly the same as what I asked in itch.io from my software. And all this assumes that I can sell 100,000 units of the software. The current counts are more like 500 units. Now the right price for the product would be 150,000/500 + overhead, and stands at 450e a piece.

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 06:00am

  Speak for yourself. I’d kill copyright with my bare hands if I could.

  It might be possible. But you first need to have alternative that ensure compensation for authors. And given that your alternative is unlikely to gather much support from the population that needs to pay the bill, we doubt the solution is solving any significant problems from copyright.

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 05:56am

  it’s called moving onto other authors who actually want me to read their books.

  There's a nagging feeling among the developer community that this "other authors" cannot fix your symbian phone problem.

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  terop ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2022 @ 05:54am

  Buddy, hardware isn’t the limitation here…

  I know our programming talent makes us better than god, but I didn't realize the general public has difficulties seeing the limits of their computer hardware.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 08:47am

  someone’s mad that their “hard work” didn’t make them the next George Lucas lmao die mad about it

  Yes, but its still much better than the lazy potato like you.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 06:43am

  this much delusion should come with involuntary committal to a psych ward

  noone said it's easy to do what we do.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 06:22am

  There are workarounds to Tero’s problems.

  workarounds are not acceptable though. You're fixing the error from wrong location if you do a workaround. Correct way to fix problems is by 1) identify the correct location 2) fix it from that location When your workaround process goes the wrong way: a) identify correct location b) skip/bypass the location This workaround process is explicitly marked dangerous in legal statues and hacking laws and "bypassing technological protection mechanisms" laws are explicitly saying that this "workaround" process is illegal.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 06:14am

  he fact that new content has to compete with old content as one of your biggest gripes since you’ve been on this site.

  Yeah, noone wants to offer their original content to teenagers who wears star wars t-shirt and secretly watch pirated copies of star wars in their basement and loudly rejecting all original content because it is missing the famous lightsaber effect during sword fights. Competing with star wars is endless nights of horror, when star wars built their empire with 100 years old film technology and our lousy computers running rendering farms are struggling to match their technology. Film technology has been carefully developed for endless number of years and fine-tuned to level which is impossible to match with our slow computer cpu/gpu combos. We're late in our deliveries, and our new tech is not powerful enough. But technology must be developed further, even if you're 100 years late in your deliveries.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 06:06am

  For some reason adults don’t count because you think adults are stupider than children.

  Yes, your adults have lost their ability to explore the world with open mind. When a child finds out useful techniques from the world, exploring what the knobs do, and adults are afraid of pressing the button in fear of breaking the computer.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 06:03am

  If authors who have money problems choose to make their content unavailable, that still doesn’t make them money.

  It isn't this black and white. Author's toolbox includes preferring certain areas of the world or certain end users, and giving priviledged few a head start in their quest to dominate the world. When authors decide that you're not worthy of the content that the author built, you have no alternative other than hide in your fox's nest.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 05:58am

  yet your entire solution of how to get around the exact same questions that Pixar, Blender, Autodesk et al had to answer is to pray that enough people run supercomputer rigs in their homes instead of mobile phones?

  Well, I like the 1 million bucks that is reserved for the person who solves the millennium problems first in the whole world.

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  terop ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 05:55am

  That you have access to the content you created is not a defense against the fact that you infringed on Scott Cawthon’s copyright.

  Yes, but it explains why the groundbreaking technology is unable to prevent it like your "story" requires.

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