Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: playstation.ny.program.questions,scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior,scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler Subject: Re: Dear Sir... Date: 2 Nov 1998 22:21:30 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <7158bk$fj62@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <363A04CD.E0EA3EBA@mcmail.com> <363D9C4C.3974@bton.ac.uk> <363D9EE0.4684@bton.ac.uk> <363DA1D8.6A0@bton.ac.uk> <363DB13D.12B9188@mcmail.com> <363DEBB7.14FD@bton.ac.uk> <363DF383.765B@dma-design.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longford.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk playstation.ny.program.questions:197 scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics:709 scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics:1000 scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior:400 scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler:277 On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 18:01:39 +0000, Brian Baird wrote: >"Acquired unofficially"? Acquired *illegally* is what you meant to say, >surely? They may be developing games, they may be swapping their own >sources - but all their development tools are pirated. I'd disagree. A number of people seem to have the pirated PsyQ tools, which is just plain wrong, but a lot more seem to have built gcc cross compilers. I don't think there's any way that that can be illegal. The question of libraries is a more delicate one, but again I think there are probably people out there who aren't using the libraries either. [I guess if they're producing PsyQ executables, though, the question of which category they fall into is rather academic] Toby.