Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider 638
ruphus13 notes a new development in Blizzard's case against MDY, which we discussed last week. Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft, has now requested another injunction — to prevent the open sourcing of Glider code. Quoting: "Blizzard has asked the court for a relatively unconventional order prohibiting MDY from making the source code for its MMO Glider software available to the public, and prohibiting MDY from helping people develop other World of Warcraft automation software. Blizzard had previously asked the court to shut down MDY's WoW operations in its motion for summary judgment, but the court's summary judgment order did not address Blizzard's request. Blizzard's requests to prohibit open-source release of MDY's software and prohibit MDY's assistance in development of independent WoW bots are new to this motion — and seem likely to raise eyebrows in the open source and digital rights advocacy camps."
I have a solution.... (Score:5, Funny)
OOPS! we were hacked! our source code was stolen!
OMG!! It's all over pirate bay! sorry!
In other words, legally say "Blizzard.... Go To Hell."
Enemy of my enemy? (Score:3, Funny)
I feel a strange disturbance in the force... as if thousands of WoW-addicts/programmers cried out in pain, and were silenced.
Re:I have a solution.... (Score:3, Funny)
This code sucks and people that develop it suck as well. They are people that do not believe rules are for them.
You would make an excellent agent... Mister Anderson.
Re:I have a solution.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You cannot outlaw bots (Score:5, Funny)
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Well done.
CC.
Too late: here's the source (Score:2, Funny)
I don't see what all the fuss is about ... the source code for Glider is 9 bits:
- # -
- - #
# # #
Re:False positives (Score:3, Funny)
Be happy, Blizzard just gave you your life back!
OT: Analogies (Score:2, Funny)
Have you ever noticed that whenever someone starts a post saying that an analogy is bad, they then try to add more convolutions to that same analogy as if that will improve it?
Why, that kind of analogy is just like when someone puts a rocket on their neighbor's car and doesn't tell the neighbor, then fires it up when the neighbor leaves for work in the morning.
Yep, just like it. :D
Re:I have a solution.... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah, and you must also howl at the full moon every month while standing on one leg in a public place.
And if you are someone who writes EULAs (or those stupid Corporate Email Signatures), please move to Sudan and eat sand for the rest of your hopefully short life.
Re:I have a solution.... (Score:2, Funny)
Look, if YOU wanna be on Keanu Reeves side, well, that's your problem. The rest of us are sticking with Elrond.
He may have the goofy eyebrows, but on the other hand, he didn't star in the Lake House.
Re:"illegal" open source software (Score:1, Funny)
It's really complicated. Whether by design or not, contract law is astoundingly complex and sometimes borderline irrational.
So, mathematically speaking, considering C and D are arbitrary constants, pi is the famous number (~3.141592...), and i is the square root of -1, then:
Contract law = C*pi*i + D
Yeah, that makes things a lot clearer.