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Open Source and Libre Systems / Open source aspirations of credibility exploited to legitimize Bitcoin

« Last post by pocock on February 25, 2026, 06:46:51 am »

Free / Open source is not absolutely perfect or secure but many people feel it gives a better hope of security and independence than proprietary software.

Over many years, proponents of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency have tried to align themselves with open source developers and well known projects or organisations.

Many people have remained neutral about this topic up to now.  Recent news reports talk about a "death spiral" or "crypto winter" after the BTC price crash.

Does anybody feel projects should do more to distance themselves from Bitcoin?

Could Linux distributions be legally liable for including Bitcoin packages in their distribution?

When Bitcoin  does implode, whether it is next week or in 10 years, could it impact the reputation of other open source initiatives and people promoting geeky innovation?

What would be the criteria for an open source project, such as a Linux distribution, to include or exclude a particular Cryptocurrency?

I started putting some of my observations in blog posts, this one begins to cover the relationship with open source phenomena

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by power9mm on February 24, 2026, 05:26:47 pm »

Was there feedback from Nightdive?

I asked if they could do a "source available" akin to UT4 since system shock remake uses the same engine. IIRC it had some proprietary licensed bits added in. Maybe they would give it some modicum of consideration if enough people chimed in. Getting game devs to even support linux in general let alone a different arch is quite an uphill battle though.. Considering how things are going in general with corporate and government control of computing systems maybe more people will move into the open source sphere with time.. I know I did 5ish years ago.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by MPC7500 on February 24, 2026, 04:32:12 pm »

Was there feedback from Nightdive?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by power9mm on February 24, 2026, 03:38:37 pm »

Ive asked them before they wouldnt do it

Let's hope they will accept the hardware offer from Tim.

For now we could always play the game with box64

oh wow, who would turn that deal down... there's been some work on a re implementation of early unreal engine. Maybe one day we can play deus ex on PPC64LE.. I've also reached out to nightdive studios about supporting the arch as well.. Wish I was offered a system to get half life 2 / source engine running

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by tle on February 24, 2026, 02:28:54 am »

Ive asked them before they wouldnt do it

Let's hope they will accept the hardware offer from Tim.

For now we could always play the game with box64

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« Last post by tle on February 23, 2026, 07:26:18 pm »

The foundation is laid. Community now can have a go with adding more features

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by power9mm on February 23, 2026, 11:11:10 am »

Ive asked them before they wouldnt do it

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Open Source and Libre Systems / Re: Censorship pressure on Raptor, messages missing

« Last post by TimKelly on February 23, 2026, 07:24:16 am »

When the conversation begins to focus on you,

so you admit stalking me

Troll.

But yes, I read your blog (you do want people to do that, right?), I researched the issues you raised, and I examined your posts closely.  I find that the readers need to be aware that (in my opinion) your conclusions are not supported and the readers need to think for themselves before getting outraged and joining your crusade, or in any way having their opinions influenced by you.

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Open Source and Libre Systems / Re: Censorship pressure on Raptor, messages missing

« Last post by pocock on February 23, 2026, 07:22:50 am »

When the conversation begins to focus on you,

so you admit stalking me

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Open Source and Libre Systems / Re: Censorship pressure on Raptor, messages missing

« Last post by TimKelly on February 23, 2026, 07:03:42 am »

What am I tearing down when I documented the cases of volunteers being tricked to join the fake FSFE instead of the real FSF?

If you did so much work yourself, why do you think tricking people to give time and money to fake FSFE is acceptable?

You didn't answer my question.  You rarely do.  When the conversation begins to focus on you, and you can not redirect with "What about" arguments, you close the thread.

Here, a simple example for you to follow:

https://marc.info/?l=pcc-commit-list&w=2&r=1&s=Tim+Kelly&q=b

It will return a list of commits to pcc as a result of my patches.  Please post a similar search of your recent contributions to an open-source effort.