That's a fair point, and it's the Waydroid team's unquestioned right to use whatever technologies they want to build their software on.
But just throwing it out as a solution to a general Linux question when there's a VERY good chance it's incompatible with major distros is omitting critical information.
It saddens me to see you being downvoted by the Wayland evangelists when it is CLEARLY not a (EDIT: feature complete) replacement for X11 yet. If I could upvote you twice, I would.
It's not about either of those. A system emulator is nothing more than a program that converts the hardware instructions of one piece of hardware to another. What you DO with that can be legal or illegal, but the emulator ITSELF is totally legal and requires no justification.
Why do people not understand that piracy is COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY irrelevant to the LEGALITY of emulation?
There is no "Oh, but Nintendo was losing money..."
My electric company loses money when I generate solar power. That doesn't give them the legal right to come to my house and rip out my panels.
The established legal FACT is that emulation is LEGAL.
"But the pirates..."
No, shut up. Emulation is LEGAL. Making and distributing an emulator is LEGAL. And the best way to LOSE that legal right is to misunderstand that you have it and make the public think that there's some legal gray area here. There isn't.
You know what's illegal? PIRACY. And Nintendo has every legal right to go after PIRATES. They DON'T have the legal right to stop development of system emulators. Stop with this nonsense justification, because there isn't one. Nintendo is not legally right on ANY aspect of this.
Repeat after me:
CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING EMULATORS IS COMPLETELY LEGAL BY ESTABLISHED LAW AND LEGAL PRECEDENT AND NINTENDO ILLEGALLY EXTORTED SOMEONE INTO STOPPING A PROJECT.
Unfortunately, we're at a point where any attempt to fix media directly will be met with push-back by those very same people - we see this happening RIGHT now. They are weaponized and can be turned on any outlet that DARES try to speak the truth.
These people are now an army and bad actors will NOT willfully give them up. You have to assume the worst... that any attempt to fix the system will necessarily involve confrontation with them, and more we can reduce their numbers or limit their reach the easier that will become.
Treating them lightly with kid gloves will only encourage more people to join their ideologies, and it's not a matter of hovering around 50%, there's a tipping point. The moment there are visibly more people on the side of lies and fascism, a huge chunk of people who simply want to fit in or be on the winning side will simply change sides. Fascism and populism are diseases, and like any disease, it's tragic that they're sick, but you first and foremost have to contain it and stop it from spreading. THEN you can start worrying about their well-being once they are no longer a threat.
Things are different now as the educational system is being intentionally damaged, but every single child who grew up in America between the ages of 10 and 80 was raised in an educational environment that taught them in no uncertain terms ALL of the warning signs of fascism and manipulation - these haven't changed in hundreds of years. They are either willfully ignoring them or spent their years in school eating paint instead of internalizing anything.
It's totally reasonable to recognize they're victims. It's also reasonable to recognize that in most cases, they made themselves that way.
"Hey Verne! Found a perfectly good hammer for free downtown where all that fighting was happening! Now we can finally put the finishing touches on those cabinets in your kitchen, know-what-I-mean?"
"Your honor, rather than pay his outstanding debts, this shiftless f***wit used 75 million dollars to fund a SuperPAC to bother people at their homes for the benefit of the Trump campaign."
In all seriousness, do you think it will do that? There's no place on a ballot to put the REASON you cast your vote, so isn't it possible the Democrats who look at the post-mortem choose to interpret your vote in some other way?
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That's a fair point, and it's the Waydroid team's unquestioned right to use whatever technologies they want to build their software on.
But just throwing it out as a solution to a general Linux question when there's a VERY good chance it's incompatible with major distros is omitting critical information.