this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
384 points (92.9% liked)

Programmer Humor

19570 readers
1360 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] xantoxis@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It made them nervous because someone might put parts of the original source into Wine. You can't do that in a rewrite in a different language, it doesn't even make sense. The thing the people in this screenshot are gloating about isn't even relevant to this license.

[โ€“] offspec@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It made them nervous for the same reason emulator devs don't touch leaks with a ten foot pole, giving the megacorp any reason to argue your clean house reimplantation is anything but clean is just asking for trouble.