Jaboo's Plugins Options

[bucket61]

I know that the author had already asked Jaboo about his plugins while the contest was running. Jaboos said that he didnt want someome making money off his plugins. But, now the contest is over has the author of PJ64X asked Jaboo again? I think that Jaboo's excellent plugins would be a great help to the emulator and the author would make NO money off this advancement.
That my $0.02.



This post has been edited by bucket61: Jun 28 2003, 12:01 AM

[Jadius]

Who's Jaboo?

[mde3233967]

no.i dont think jobo's plungin will be open source if he said no then its no reguardless what ever the cause is

[mde3233967]

no.i dont think jobo's plungin will ever be open source. if he said no then its no reguardless what ever the cause is

[Iriez]

QUOTE (bucket61 @ Jun 27 2003, 06:58 PM)

I know that the author had already asked Jaboo about his plugins while the contest was running. Jaboos said that he didnt want someome making money off his plugins. But, now the contest is over has the author of PJ64X asked Jaboo again? I think that Jaboo's excellent plugins would be a great help to the emulator and the author would make NO money off this advancement. That my $0.02.

First of all, for christ's sake, its JABO. Not jobo, or joboo, or jaboo.

Jabo has never released the sources of his work with the exception of his direct audio plugin (correct me if im wrong).

This contest if anything has further concreted his opinion on releasing his sources. If he does release the sources for his video plugin, i really doubt it will be anytime soon.

Besides, at the rate rice is developing, his plugin will soon be the best of all worlds.

[dmb062082]

Just my 2 pennies but I dont think the sources will ever be released. The money contest thing was a excuse. People have asked before 6 7 and 8 months ago for this very same purpose and the answer was no then its no now and it will be no next week. Why wont he release them? Because he gets 3 emails a day with people requesting for his code. You really want the source this is what you do. Stop bugging him and forget about his code and he will no longer think he has something over alot of other coders. If that is done he will stop hoarding (he has every right to horde its his work) he will forget about its value as no one is showing interest and release his source in the future. But this will never happen and he will never release any time in the near or semi distant future. Just my two pennies though!

This post has been edited by dmb062082: Jun 28 2003, 03:05 AM

[lantus]

he wont release them because its his work and he can do whatever he likes.

side note: he recently updated his 1.5 plugin to 1.5.1 for the SP1 release of PJ64 on Windows.

[dizturbd]

If there's no money exchange involved, who are you giving your 2 cents to?

[farmerfred]

I dont think hes released the source fo his audio plugin has he?

[SSSSSmokey]

I hate closed source. I can understand if a project is under dev and he wants to finish it, or even just closed to the public. But I think closing your source to EVERYONE, even trusted devs who are going to work on it for xbox is selfish. I am still an extremely novice programmer, but trust me, when I am making emulators and projects good enough to be released, they will be open source.

[feflicker]

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he wont release them because its his work and he can do whatever he likes.

I know he worked hard on these, and they are the best plugins around, but why not share them?

After all, he goes months on end without even working on them at all... (I have been following Jabo's work for some time now, as I am a big N64 emulation fan.)

I am not ungrateful, as I do use the plugins, and enjoy them thoroughly. I just don't understand this line of thinking...

My Opinion: If you are not planning on selling your code, or profiting from it in some other way, then what reason is there to not make it open-source?

[bmack36]

The reason he is not realeasing the sources is because some of the code in his plugins use code that he developed for commercial applications. This is the main reason he wouldn't release the code. So there is no chance of him releasing his sources.

[TerrorShocked]

It is his work and he can do whatever he wants with it. Until you make a plugin with that high of calibur, you should not be critisizing him for not releasing his work. Even asking is just considered rude..... It is stuff like begging for the source which has caused many other emulator authors to cease work all together.