I find it extreamly displeasing that the most promenent groups in the scene (that people look up to, no less) skirt around sharing code (even under pressure of a licence) by simply saying, "It's all illegal, fuck it". You know, guys, this is why the scene stagnates and "freezes" for such long periods of time between the "major" shit. Yeah, I know, alot of stuff has been pioneered on the XBox by either Team EvoX or Xecuter (the latter more recently). However, if you look at, say, the DC scene, almost *every* major hack, developmental milestone, and whatnot was made very, very early, documented well, and sources released. Within less than a year, the homebrew devkit almost surpassed the commercial one, for Christ's sake. Why? Because everyone had the maturity to share their work.
Now, to this scene. Sharing code is taboo here; it's considered perfectly mature to not share code and, approched on the subject, to call all reproachers "fucking faggots". While not sharing code is acceptable (at least, if it's not under licence), saying, in effect, "fuck you" every time someone asks is just a touch adolescent.
I thank the lucky stars that guys like BenJeremy, Xport, and the XBMP/C team had such maturity (when Xport wasn't sharing the source, at least he didn't respond with an insult every time someone made a topic about it) to share the code. Hell, without derived sourcecode from XBMP, alot of coders would be banging their heads against a wall trying to implement features that were otherwise easily thrown in.
Not to sound ungrateful, Ubergeek, but your team isn't a monolith. There's still plenty of time for another group to come along and throw you off the top of the heap. Remember how you threw EvoX off the top of that same heap? You had an edge (you updated your shit more). Another group may come along and have an edge of your own group (maybe they'll release source, maybe they'll actually assist other groups instead of prattle on about it, whatever). As I've said before, no group or individual is truely indespensible, except for maybe Andrew "Bunny" Huang (sorry if I spelled his name wrong). I still remember when your team used to start flamewars daily. If it wasn't for your skilled hacking (you want to prove you know the BIOS? Code one from scratch. That, or quit dogging on Cromwell), there would be no respect for you. This thread has made me lose a little more respect for your group. As I suggested in the past, you shouldn't be the voice of Xecuter if you're going to be so damn hostile towards mostly innocent questions.
