Interesting ...
Watching now.
#crysx
basically; gminer dev hypothetically broke into lollies house and stole his 75" QLED television and tv subscription box.
Ran with it for 50 yards to his own house, plugged it in and watched all the subscription services for 2 months on lollies subscription before pretending to be lollie and upgrading the package to suit himself.
shameful.
I understand the concept ...
I have been one of the major 'issues' in a devs backside (Rune Stensland - know as sp_ here) for many years that has ripped off opensource products, tweaked and played with them, compiled them into Windows Closed Source Products, then SOLD them to make himself rich via those miners that didn't care whether he did or not. The difference is that Rune actually admits to doing this AND is proud of the fact that he rips others work off. The proof is in all he does. The vast majority of Closed Miners now are exactly the same. OpenSource Product being ripped off to produce Closed Source Windows Binaries - and the same has happened. No one cares, as long as they hash higher and get more money in their pockets.
We (Open Source advocates in the CryptoIndustry) have been battling this for years with NO result. NONE, NADA, ZILCH!
Why? Because firstly not one of the mining community gives a crap about WHY the miner was created and whether the dev is breaking the law or not. Second - FOSS and the Open Source entities have not policed ONE developer and convicted them of breaking the law. Not ONE. Least of all Rune Stensland who admits this in the open public forum.
Whether the developer of BMiner actually has stolen code and broken the law or not, he is still running as he has been, still works on the code to improve it, and is still here doing what he is doing AND making money from it. Proving whether he is using Open Source product is one thing. Getting FOSS to POLICE this is another story altogether. So far, they are like tit on a bull. Nice for show, but useless in application.
I am NOT saying this dev has ripped off software or not, and NOT saying this dev is making money from ripped off software or not. You are saying that. What I am saying (and directing this to you) is that you are wasting your time and effort. Unless all you want is to prove that this devhas ripped off the code AND want it publicly known, then bravo. Otherwise, this will continue and will not be suppressed by the so called (bullshit) powers FOSS believe they have int he Open Source Market. They have done nothing with regards to an openly self proclaimed law breaking like Rune, and they will do nothing to this dev (if proven he has) as they have done nothing to all the other 'devs' (most of which know VERY little code) that have brought out all the other miners.
What will matter is IF FOSS ever pull their finger out and charge anyone at all. IF and only IF. Otherwise, this copying and financial benefiting from the devs will continue and will continue with gusto. This is THE reason we removed our own miner (CWIgm) before the full release with all the Algos, and also the reason we only use the optimized miners in our own pools privately. The custome code will always be copied, and if we Open Source it, people will take it and produce (private) versions without supplying the source code for it under the GNU license, and make more money than all the miners put together. Better to go private, and if this lollie dev wants to work privately, I am all ears to work with us.
I will continue to watch from the sidelines as I have for many years now, and will do so with a large bowl of popcorn and a few bottles of Coke
#crysx
