[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Voyeur - Linux game hacking tool - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> said:

>     Personally, I'm not in favor of hosting this project because, despite
>     of what the submitter say, it does harm games. Most of the recent game
>     propose "cheat" features in the software when you are not playing
>     over the net with other real persons but with AIs.
> 
> In general, we see nothing wrong with reverse engineering
> tools.  (The users ought to have the source code anyway.)
> 
> But I need to know more in order to think about the question.
> 
> I gather that on Windows these scanning program are common.
> What are the general views among gamers who use Windows
> about these programs?


Hard to know. In the past, I used to play a lot to online game
(proprietary software unfortunately) and I was clearly hating this
kind of software, just used in a spirit of competition, by winning
unfairly. 

But if there's so many scanning programs for games, it also means that
many people are enjoying these programs (it is not a big surprise to
me that many people enjoy unfair tools). 

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