does anyone care? Thread

that plans that will most likely kill mod and end user developement are well into the process of becoming reality.
TCPA dammit...

to duplicate my post on quakesrc.org

my point is, what you described, protected memory/processor etc is exactly what TCPA is, and is coming to a motherboard/HDD/keyboard/mouse somewhere near you in the very near future. At which point, shortly after, projects like Quakesource,openal even linux will most likely no longer run on said hardware, since to make the software run on such hardware developers will need to pay the TCPA companies a licensing fee. look at whats happened with mp3 developer licensing if you dont believe me......

Ive already been offered a job by a company that is looking to finalize and put into production TCPA hardware.....

I'm lost. What mod?

any mod that requires compilation of code.

never mind

- Edited By quackzilla On Thu 28th, Aug 2003 @ 1:00:27am

and what? I can't write programs for school any longer? I can't code any freeware and all the THOUSANDS of existing freeware products become useless? rofl no, i DON'T believe that. The guys who propagate TCPA must have a short vision. If they do mod-chips for all mainboards will be the topseller of the year, but they wont.

Yeah codeing is gonna end just like that water marking technologie in cd stopped illegal MP3 sharing. Compines will never find a way to stop people from doing what they want on their comp machines so don't get so scared.

stopping coding it is not the question... I do not doubt that coding will still be possible, what gets me is, those pieces of code that haven't paid the license fee to run on these machines will be deemed illegal and as such non suitable for public files........