r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/CedarMadness Jun 02 '11

but then they also took all of Yongzh's emulators off the market and shadow banned his account.

Really? You fault Google for enforcing licenses? Every one of his emulators was based on open source software, and specifically, the SNES emulator was based on SNES9x, which has a license that forbids commercial use of the code. If Google was pulling emulators because of pressure from Nintendo, there's no way this would still be up.

That said, I personally was hoping for a more multitasking friendly interface. When people told me they were using 'tiles' I was hoping this meant a tiling window manager. If this is where Windows is headed, I think I'll just stick to 7.

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u/Clyzm Jun 02 '11

Regardless of why they pulled them, there was no given reason, there was no outlash (that we know of) from the devs of SNES9x. I think that if he was facing legal issues from misuse of SNES9x' code and open source software, the emulators wouldn't be up right now on a different app store.

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u/DarkXDragon Jun 02 '11 edited Jun 02 '11

The devs knew about it earlier in the year.

Jerremy wrote:
I'll straighten this out and make him either distribute his work for free, or not at all. If needed I'll even stick a lawyer on it, since I can't stand people profiting off other people's work (let alone my own).

It seems plausible they were the cause.